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

GIPPO

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

As an opener, it rules out about 83.1% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɪpəʊ/

Noun

A Gypsy.

Noun

Gravy.

Alternative forms: gypo, gyppo

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 GIPPO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GIPPO 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 66.3% of games, misses completely in 33.7%, and leaves about 401 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,728 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 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 GIPPO 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.

3.54 Entropy (bits)
401 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 8% of evaluated openers
2.41 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GIPPO 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#12,728 Rank among openers
Opening with GIPPO 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 3.83 average. It ranks #12,728 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
45
3 guesses
669
4 guesses
1,292
5 guesses
329
6 guesses
18
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:
IO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
66%
Green tile
19%
All gray
34%

Feedback distribution

GIPPO can come back 68 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

799 answers
429 answers
282 answers
127 answers
122 answers
72 answers
51 answers
45 answers
44 answers
41 answers
33 answers
30 answers
30 answers
26 answers
26 answers
21 answers
21 answers
17 answers
13 answers
11 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2I1P3P3O1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Strategy after playing GIPPO

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GIPPO:

34% chance
Suggested:
REAST
18% chance
Suggested:
TALER
12% chance
Suggested:
CRATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

33.7%
REAST 6.28 bits
18.1%
TALER 5.23 bits
11.9%
CRATE 5.43 bits
5.3%
SATED 4.45 bits
5.1%
SLATE 5.62 bits
3.0%
LARGE 5.12 bits
2.1%
TRADE 4.70 bits
1.9%
TOXIN 4.08 bits
1.9%
SENOR 4.08 bits
1.7%
SLICE 4.45 bits

Research on GIPPO

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

Optimal play

Opening with GIPPO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.87 guesses and ranks #13,181 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.00 guesses at best and is rank #6,134 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.83, at or below the proven-optimal 3.87, 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 GIHPOH. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.