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

CLOPS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of clop

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of clop

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 CLOPS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CLOPS 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 77.9% of games, misses completely in 22.1%, and leaves about 197 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,103 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

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Useful pattern pages

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

C___S C in the 1st position and S in the 5th position C__P_ C in the 1st position and P in the 4th position _L__S L in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe CLOPS 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.

4.65 Entropy (bits)
197 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 62% of evaluated openers
1.30 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CLOPS 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.67 Spread of game lengths
#1,103 Rank among openers
Opening with CLOPS solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.67 means those games clustered within about 0.67 of a guess of the 3.60 average. It ranks #1,103 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
64
3 guesses
978
4 guesses
1,153
5 guesses
150
6 guesses
9
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
LOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
27%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

CLOPS can come back 101 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

524 answers
239 answers
205 answers
202 answers
99 answers
75 answers
71 answers
68 answers
68 answers
62 answers
59 answers
54 answers
44 answers
39 answers
29 answers
27 answers
26 answers
26 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3L1O1P3S1
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 TRADE PAIRE FRATE

Strategy after playing CLOPS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CLOPS:

22% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
10% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
9% chance
Suggested:
RAILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.1% →
TIARE 6.28 bits
10.1% →
TIARE 5.74 bits
8.6% →
RAILE 5.39 bits
8.5% →
RONTE 5.43 bits
4.2% →
TIARE 5.42 bits
3.2% →
TRADE 4.84 bits
3.0% →
TIARE 5.21 bits
2.9% →
PAIRE 5.07 bits
2.9% →
FRATE 4.80 bits
2.6% →
LOYAL 4.05 bits

Research on CLOPS

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

Optimal play

Opening with CLOPS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,203 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.74 guesses at best and is rank #254 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.60, at or below the proven-optimal 3.66, 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 KLAHPS. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, CLOPS is a kind of sound or go.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CLOPS 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); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).