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

GENIP

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.9% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A succulent berry with a thick rind, the fruit of plants in the genus Genipa.

Noun

Alternative form of quenepa (“mamoncillo”).

Alternative forms: guinep

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 GENIP performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GENIP 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 79.8% of games, misses completely in 20.2%, and leaves about 193 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,373 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe GENIP 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.

4.67 Entropy (bits)
193 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 63% of evaluated openers
1.27 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GENIP 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#2,373 Rank among openers
Opening with GENIP left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It ranks #2,373 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
61
3 guesses
962
4 guesses
1,138
5 guesses
177
6 guesses
14
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
2 vowels
Common:
EIN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
28%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

GENIP can come back 98 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

480 answers
358 answers
152 answers
134 answers
109 answers
96 answers
83 answers
75 answers
73 answers
71 answers
45 answers
38 answers
34 answers
34 answers
33 answers
31 answers
31 answers
25 answers
23 answers
23 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2E1N1I1P3
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing GENIP

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GENIP:

20% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
15% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
6% chance
Suggested:
SLATY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.2%
ROAST 6.03 bits
15.1%
ROAST 5.56 bits
6.4%
SLATY 5.03 bits
5.6%
SLART 4.94 bits
4.6%
ROAST 5.17 bits
4.0%
TRIDE 4.55 bits
3.5%
DOREE 4.44 bits
3.2%
TARSE 5.10 bits
3.1%
SAURY 4.97 bits
3.0%
COAST 4.89 bits

Research on GENIP

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

Optimal play

Opening with GENIP, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,758 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.81 guesses at best and is rank #1,633 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it JEHNIHP. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, GENIP is a kind of tree or produce.

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).