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

BLOOP

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

As an opener, it rules out about 83.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /bluːp/

Verb

To blow air bubbles or audibly slosh about in water.

Verb

To make a hit just beyond the infield.

Noun

The sound of a fish blowing air bubbles in water.

Noun

The sound of something, especially a fish, sloshing about in water.

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 BLOOP performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BLOOP 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 63.4% of games, misses completely in 36.6%, and leaves about 391 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,799 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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.

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Useful pattern pages

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

B___P B in the 1st position and P in the 5th position B__O_ B in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _L__P L in the 2nd position and P in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe BLOOP 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.

3.78 Entropy (bits)
391 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 14% of evaluated openers
2.17 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BLOOP 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#10,799 Rank among openers
Opening with BLOOP left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.78 average. It ranks #10,799 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
43
3 guesses
757
4 guesses
1,254
5 guesses
275
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:
LO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
63%
Green tile
28%
All gray
37%

Feedback distribution

BLOOP can come back 74 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

868 answers
263 answers
193 answers
160 answers
104 answers
98 answers
74 answers
64 answers
56 answers
47 answers
42 answers
32 answers
32 answers
27 answers
27 answers
23 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
15 answers
13 answers
12 answers
10 answers
10 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3L1O1O1P3
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

TIARE RAILE RONTE PAISE TRINE SAICE

Strategy after playing BLOOP

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BLOOP:

37% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
11% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
8% chance
Suggested:
RONTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

36.6% →
TIARE 6.30 bits
11.1% →
RAILE 5.35 bits
8.1% →
RONTE 5.21 bits
6.7% →
PAISE 5.58 bits
4.4% →
TRINE 4.89 bits
4.1% →
SAICE 5.03 bits
3.1% →
IRATE 5.17 bits
2.7% →
CADET 3.94 bits
2.4% →
MARSE 4.63 bits
2.0% →
TASER 4.84 bits

Research on BLOOP

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

Optimal play

Opening with BLOOP, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,615 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.92 guesses at best and is rank #4,568 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.78, at or below the proven-optimal 3.80, 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

One syllable Say it BLOOP. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BLOOP sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

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).