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BIPPY

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈbɪ.pi/

Noun

An unspecified part of the anatomy, usually used in the phrase "you bet your (sweet) bippy".

“Does this new law give us the right to trespass anywhere we like? You bet your sweet bippy it does.”

Noun

A pacifier.

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

Etymology

Pacifier sense from a brand name.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use BIPPY in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 78.9% 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

No

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

Past Wordle answer

No completed appearance

No 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.

How BIPPY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BIPPY 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 58.3% of games, misses completely in 41.7%, and leaves about 504 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,917 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.89 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.
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Useful pattern pages

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

B___Y B in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position B__P_ B in the 1st position and P in the 4th position _I__Y I in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe BIPPY 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.

3.28 Entropy (bits)
504 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
78.9% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BIPPY 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.

3.89 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#13,917 Rank among openers
Opening with BIPPY left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.89 average. It ranks #13,917 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
30
3 guesses
634
4 guesses
1,273
5 guesses
384
6 guesses
31

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
I

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
58%
Green tile
32%
All gray
42%

Feedback distribution

BIPPY can come back 58 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

995 answers
317 answers
222 answers
148 answers
127 answers
108 answers
59 answers
47 answers
35 answers
30 answers
27 answers
26 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
16 answers
12 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3I1P3P3Y4
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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

Try next

ROATE LEANT SARED STRAE RONTE SERAL

Strategy after playing BIPPY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BIPPY:

42% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
13% chance
Suggested:
LEANT
9% chance
Suggested:
SARED

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

41.7% →
ROATE 6.11 bits
13.3% →
LEANT 5.34 bits
9.3% →
SARED 4.95 bits
6.2% →
STRAE 5.58 bits
5.3% →
RONTE 4.79 bits
4.5% →
SERAL 5.24 bits
2.5% →
OATER 5.06 bits
2.0% →
SATER 4.51 bits
1.5% →
SLANT 3.05 bits
1.3% →
LATER 4.71 bits

Research on BIPPY

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

Optimal play

Opening with BIPPY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.88 guesses and ranks #13,543 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.05 guesses at best and is rank #6,728 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.89; proven optimal play reaches 3.88. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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
BIPPY 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).