5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

WIGGY

WIGGY is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.

As an opener, it rules out about 75.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Crazy.

Adjective

Uninhibited.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Wordle status

A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.

Playable guess

Yes

Included in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.

Possible answer

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How WIGGY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WIGGY as a guess, but the solver does not list it as a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 54.6% of games, misses completely in 45.4%, and leaves about 575 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,545 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.96 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

W___Y W in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position W__G_ W in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _I__Y I in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

TARSE TRACE SERAL RONTE ORATE SOREL
Words starting with W Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.09 Entropy (bits)
575 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
75.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 2% of evaluated openers
2.86 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WIGGY performed in the previous complete opener benchmark, against its captured answer snapshot. These research figures are separate from today's solver recommendations. See the data page for the method.

3.96 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#14,545 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WIGGY ranks #14,545 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
24
3 guesses
585
4 guesses
1,237
5 guesses
471
6 guesses
36
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
I

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
55%
Green tile
29%
All gray
45%

Feedback distribution

50 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

1070
342
239
113
85
79
40
39
38
37
34
32
26
18
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WIGGY:

45% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
15% chance
Suggested:
TRACE
10% chance
Suggested:
SERAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

Ranked follow-up guesses for the 10 most common feedback patterns.

45.4% →
TARSE 6.28 bits
14.5% →
TRACE 5.34 bits
10.1% →
SERAL 4.87 bits
4.8% →
RONTE 4.77 bits
3.6% →
ORATE 5.18 bits
3.4% →
SOREL 5.05 bits
1.7% →
LAYER 4.67 bits
1.7% →
ALURE 4.17 bits
1.6% →
CARLE 4.68 bits
1.6% →
SLATE 3.12 bits

Letter-value totals

Base letter-value totals for WIGGY; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.

Scrabble

W4I1G2G2Y4
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.