WOODY
WOODY is on the solver's possible-answer list and has no appearance in our globally completed Wordle history.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈwʊdi/
- Adjective
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Covered in woods; wooded.
- Adjective
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Consisting of wood; resembling wood in appearance or texture.
- Noun
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Alternative form of woodie.
- Noun
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A compact wooden climbing wall used for board climbing.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English woodi, wody, wodi, equivalent to wood + -y.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it WUUDEE.
Rhymes with GOODY
Related meanings
Synonyms hard wooden BIRCH wooded
Opposites soft
In a sentence
Where was Woody Allen born?
These strawberry tree fruits taste a little woody.
Use WOODY in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 77.8% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
No completed appearanceNo appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.
The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.
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See what the public sample says →WOODY in Connections
3 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #1126
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WOODY appeared in "TOY STORY" CHARACTERS (blue group).
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· Puzzle #979
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WOODY appeared in TOM HANKS ROLES (blue group).
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· Puzzle #842
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WOODY appeared in CARTOON BIRDS (blue group).
How WOODY performs as a guess
WOODY 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 55.5% of games, misses completely in 44.5%, and leaves about 530 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,653 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.88 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe WOODY 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How WOODY 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches WOODY in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
WOODY can come back 68 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for WOODY; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
Try next
Strategy after playing WOODY
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to WOODY.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing WOODY:
Research on WOODY
Game-tree analysis and word research for WOODY, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with WOODY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.88 guesses and ranks #13,489 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 WOODY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.88, at or below the proven-optimal 3.88, 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
- WOODY sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 7 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.9 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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).