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GUPPY

Yes, GUPPY was the Wordle answer on May 4, 2023 (Wordle #684).

As an opener, it rules out about 74.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌpi/

Noun

A tiny freshwater fish, Poecilia reticulata, popular in home aquariums, that usually has a plain body and black or dark blue tail for the females and a more colorful tail for the males. The guppies can vary in size, but males are 4 cm (1.6”) and females are 7 cm (2.8”).

“Fred kept a tank of guppies by the windowsill.”

Noun

Any tiny fish.

“Throw that one back; it’s just a guppy!”

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: May 4, 2023 (#684).

See the full page for that puzzle: May 4, 2023 (#684).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How GUPPY performs as a guess

GUPPY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 52.2% of games, misses completely in 47.8%, and leaves about 605 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,081 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.91 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

G___Y G in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position G__P_ G in the 1st position and P in the 4th position _U__Y U in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe GUPPY 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.

3.13 Entropy (bits)
605 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
74.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 2% of evaluated openers
2.82 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GUPPY 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.

3.91 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#14,081 Rank among openers
Opening with GUPPY left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.91 average. It ranks #14,081 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
600
4 guesses
1,279
5 guesses
403
6 guesses
30
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
1 vowels
Common:
U

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
52%
Green tile
28%
All gray
48%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
D O I N G
B U G G Y
G U P P Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GUPPY in 5 guesses. See the trap-family guide for similar endgames.

Feedback distribution

GUPPY can come back 65 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1135 answers
227 answers
191 answers
164 answers
119 answers
88 answers
66 answers
44 answers
35 answers
32 answers
29 answers
27 answers
24 answers
21 answers
15 answers
15 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers
3 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2U1P3P3Y4
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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

Try next

TIARE TALER STONE SAICE RAINE REACT

Strategy after playing GUPPY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GUPPY:

48% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
10% chance
Suggested:
TALER
8% chance
Suggested:
STONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

47.8% →
TIARE 6.20 bits
9.6% →
TALER 4.85 bits
8.0% →
STONE 5.28 bits
6.9% →
SAICE 5.47 bits
5.0% →
RAINE 5.40 bits
3.7% →
REACT 4.81 bits
2.8% →
IRADE 5.02 bits
1.9% →
SLART 3.27 bits
1.5% →
LAYER 4.79 bits
1.3% →
SLURP 4.23 bits

Research on GUPPY

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

Optimal play

Opening with GUPPY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.91 guesses and ranks #14,013 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.06 guesses at best and is rank #6,850 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.91, at or below the proven-optimal 3.91, 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 GUHPEE.

Rhymes with PUPPY CUPPY

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
GUPPY 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.
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 frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).