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

CUTUP

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkʌtˌʌp/

Noun

Someone who cuts up; someone who acts boisterously or clownishly, for example, by playing practical jokes.

Noun

A work produced by the aleatory literary technique of cutting up and rearranging a written text to create a new text.

Alternative forms: cut-up

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

Use CUTUP in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 82.3% of possible answers.

Open Solver with CUTUP Open Word Finder

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.

CUTUP in Connections

2 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How CUTUP performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CUTUP 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 62.5% of games, misses completely in 37.5%, and leaves about 421 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,372 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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.

C___P C in the 1st position and P in the 5th position C__U_ C in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _U__P U in the 2nd position and P in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe CUTUP 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.

3.64 Entropy (bits)
421 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
82.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CUTUP 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#11,372 Rank among openers
Opening with CUTUP left 3 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 3.79 average. It ranks #11,372 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
741
4 guesses
1,251
5 guesses
299
6 guesses
19

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
TU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
62%
Green tile
25%
All gray
38%

Feedback distribution

CUTUP can come back 69 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

894 answers
340 answers
166 answers
130 answers
117 answers
93 answers
79 answers
68 answers
50 answers
46 answers
35 answers
33 answers
31 answers
22 answers
20 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
12 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3U1T1U1P3
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Try next

RAILE RAISE HAOLE LANCE SLYER SLANE

Strategy after playing CUTUP

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CUTUP:

38% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
14% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
7% chance
Suggested:
RAISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

37.5% →
RAILE 6.20 bits
14.3% →
RAISE 5.75 bits
7.0% →
RAISE 5.75 bits
5.5% →
HAOLE 5.20 bits
4.9% →
LANCE 5.22 bits
3.9% →
SLYER 4.44 bits
3.3% →
SLANE 4.89 bits
2.9% →
EARLY 4.86 bits
2.1% →
SNARE 4.17 bits
1.9% →
SLIPE 4.75 bits

Research on CUTUP

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

Optimal play

Opening with CUTUP, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.84 guesses and ranks #12,243 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.96 guesses at best and is rank #5,526 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.79, at or below the proven-optimal 3.84, 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
CUTUP 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).