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WITTY

Yes, WITTY was the Wordle answer on June 29, 2025 (Wordle #1471).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈwɪti/[ˈwɪɾi]

Adjective

Clever; amusingly ingenious.

“His speech was both witty and informative.”

Adjective

Full of wit.

“His frequent quips mark him as particularly witty.”

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

Etymology

From Middle English witty, witti, from Old English wittiġ, witiġ, ġewittiġ (“clever, wise”), from Proto-West Germanic *witīg, *witag, from Proto-Germanic *witagaz, *wītagaz (“knowing, wise, clever”), equivalent to wit + -y. Cognate with Middle Low German wittich, gewittich (“knowing, clever, wise, understanding”), German witzig (“funny, witty”), Norwegian Bokmål vettig, Norwegian Nynorsk vittig (“witty”).

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it WIHTEE.

Rhymes with KITTY BITTY NITTY DITTY

Related meanings

Synonyms humorous

In a sentence

Do you think I'm witty?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Do you think that I'm witty?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use WITTY in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 83.4% of possible answers.

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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

Used once

Past Wordle answer: June 29, 2025 (#1471).

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How WITTY performs as a guess

WITTY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 64.5% of games, misses completely in 35.5%, and leaves about 395 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,066 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.85 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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__T_ W in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _I__Y I in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position WI_TY W in the 1st position, I in the 2nd position, T in the 4th position, and Y in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in WITTY.

First-turn measures

All four describe WITTY used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

3.66 Entropy (bits)
395 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
83.4% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How WITTY 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.

3.85 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#13,066 Rank among openers
Opening with WITTY left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.85 average. It ranks #13,066 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
706
4 guesses
1,221
5 guesses
358
6 guesses
30

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
IT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
64%
Green tile
32%
All gray
36%

Example solver route

R O A T E
W I N D Y
W I T T Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches WITTY in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

WITTY can come back 71 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

846 answers
274 answers
255 answers
221 answers
102 answers
90 answers
69 answers
55 answers
51 answers
37 answers
34 answers
31 answers
27 answers
24 answers
21 answers
16 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
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7 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4I1T1T1Y4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

SOARE CRANE SORAL RANCE SLIER SENOR

Strategy after playing WITTY

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to WITTY.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WITTY:

35% chance
Suggested:
SOARE
11% chance
Suggested:
CRANE
11% chance
Suggested:
SOARE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

35.5% →
SOARE 6.13 bits
11.5% →
CRANE 5.48 bits
10.7% →
SOARE 5.66 bits
9.3% →
SORAL 4.78 bits
4.3% →
RANCE 4.89 bits
3.8% →
SLIER 4.55 bits
2.9% →
SENOR 4.96 bits
2.3% →
CANER 4.50 bits
2.1% →
SOARE 4.70 bits
1.6% →
PALER 4.78 bits

Research on WITTY

Game-tree analysis and word research for WITTY, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with WITTY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.86 guesses and ranks #13,016 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with WITTY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.85, at or below the proven-optimal 3.86, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
WITTY sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 4 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 10, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 42 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (3.1 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).