5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

LETUP

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A pause or period of slackening.

“without letup”

Alternative forms: let-up

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 LETUP performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LETUP 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 84.9% of games, misses completely in 15.1%, and leaves about 149 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,768 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.

Useful pattern pages

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

L__U_ L in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _E__P E in the 2nd position and P in the 5th position

Try next

CAIRN SONAR FLAIL ROAST SNARY SAREE
Words starting with L Words ending with P

First-turn measures

4.86 Entropy (bits)
149 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 75% of evaluated openers
1.09 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How LETUP 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
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#2,768 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, LETUP ranks #2,768 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
63
3 guesses
952
4 guesses
1,139
5 guesses
183
6 guesses
16
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ELTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
22%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

97 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

355
303
184
175
111
107
107
93
66
62
55
45
39
36
35
35
33
27
21
20
20
19
19
19
17
17
17
16
15
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LETUP:

15% chance
Suggested:
CAIRN
13% chance
Suggested:
SONAR
8% chance
Suggested:
FLAIL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.1% →
CAIRN 6.11 bits
12.8% →
SONAR 5.50 bits
7.8% →
FLAIL 4.96 bits
7.4% →
ROAST 5.41 bits
4.7% →
SNARY 4.64 bits
4.5% →
SAREE 4.98 bits
4.5% →
ALOSE 4.50 bits
3.9% →
DEARE 4.59 bits
2.8% →
RAISE 4.87 bits
2.6% →
RAINY 4.99 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1E1T1U1P3
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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