5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier for first-turn info

WOOFY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 75.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Prone to woofing

Adjective

Similar in sound to the woof of a dog.

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 WOOFY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WOOFY 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 52.7% of games, misses completely in 47.3%, and leaves about 590 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,308 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.93 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__F_ W in the 1st position and F in the 4th position _O__Y O in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe WOOFY 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.

3.20 Entropy (bits)
590 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
75.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 3% of evaluated openers
2.75 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How WOOFY 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.

3.93 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#14,308 Rank among openers
Opening with WOOFY left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.93 average. It ranks #14,308 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
26
3 guesses
615
4 guesses
1,233
5 guesses
453
6 guesses
24
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
O

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
53%
Green tile
37%
All gray
47%

Feedback distribution

WOOFY can come back 54 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1122 answers
241 answers
151 answers
145 answers
137 answers
100 answers
56 answers
47 answers
40 answers
39 answers
25 answers
24 answers
21 answers
16 answers
16 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4O1O1F4Y4
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Try next

RAISE SLART CRUET CATER STARE RAILE

Strategy after playing WOOFY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WOOFY:

47% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
10% chance
Suggested:
SLART
6% chance
Suggested:
CRUET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

47.3% →
RAISE 6.15 bits
10.2% →
SLART 4.79 bits
6.4% →
CRUET 4.90 bits
6.1% →
CATER 5.29 bits
5.8% →
STARE 4.91 bits
4.2% →
RAILE 5.39 bits
2.4% →
SANER 4.82 bits
2.0% →
RAILE 4.88 bits
1.7% →
PARLE 4.63 bits
1.6% →
SHALE 3.55 bits

Research on WOOFY

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

Optimal play

Opening with WOOFY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.93 guesses and ranks #14,300 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.10 guesses at best and is rank #7,108 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.93, at or below the proven-optimal 3.93, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it WOOFEE. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
WOOFY sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

In a sentence

Caesar dug out a bone and gave it to Woofy.
© tatoeba.org contributor maaster (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).