5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet F tier opener

WIMPY

WIMPY is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 82.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Having the characteristics of a wimp; feeble, indecisive, cowardly.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

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 WIMPY performs as a guess

WIMPY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 62.4% of games, misses completely in 37.6%, and leaves about 413 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,659 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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__P_ W in the 1st position and P in the 4th position _I__Y I in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

ROATE LEANT TALER STRAE SOARE RONTE
Words starting with W Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.66 Entropy (bits)
413 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
82.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 11% of evaluated openers
2.29 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WIMPY 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#9,659 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WIMPY ranks #9,659 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
29
3 guesses
791
4 guesses
1,273
5 guesses
246
6 guesses
14
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
I

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
62%
Green tile
28%
All gray
38%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
W I M P Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches WIMPY in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

63 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

887
289
196
142
120
110
72
50
39
32
32
28
28
28
26
22
22
20
18
14
14
13
12
10
10
10
9
8
8
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WIMPY:

38% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
12% chance
Suggested:
LEANT
8% chance
Suggested:
TALER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

37.6% →
ROATE 6.15 bits
12.3% →
LEANT 5.33 bits
8.3% →
TALER 4.89 bits
6.0% →
STRAE 5.67 bits
5.1% →
SOARE 5.49 bits
4.7% →
RONTE 4.91 bits
3.1% →
SOREL 5.00 bits
2.1% →
SATER 4.73 bits
1.7% →
ORATE 4.75 bits
1.4% →
ROUET 4.39 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4I1M3P3Y4
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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