DROOP
Yes, DROOP was the Wordle answer on July 17, 2023 (Wordle #758).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈdɹuːp/[ˈdɹʊu̯p]
- Verb
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To hang downward; to sag.
- Verb
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To slowly become limp; to bend gradually.
- Noun
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Something which is limp or sagging.
- Noun
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A condition or posture of drooping.
“He walked with a discouraged droop.”
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English droupen, from Old Norse drúpa (“to droop”), from Proto-Germanic *drūpaną, *drupōną (“to hang down, drip, drop”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewb- (“to drip, drop”). Doublet of drip and drop.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it DROOP.
Rhymes with GROUP SCOOP TROOP SNOOP COUPE
Related meanings
Synonyms flag sag wilt swag
In a sentence
Your head is starting to droop.
The big green plant was starting to droop at the stem.
Use DROOP in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 86.8% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: July 17, 2023 (#758).
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1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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DROOP appeared in CARTOON DOGS MINUS “Y” (purple group).
How DROOP performs as a guess
DROOP is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 68.5% of games, misses completely in 31.5%, and leaves about 316 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,629 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe DROOP 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How DROOP 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches DROOP in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
DROOP can come back 83 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for DROOP; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing DROOP
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to DROOP.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing DROOP:
Research on DROOP
Game-tree analysis and word research for DROOP, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with DROOP, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,777 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with DROOP can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.70, at or below the proven-optimal 3.74, 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
- DROOP 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.
- Learner level
- Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.0 of 5).
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).