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

LOIPE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.6% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A cross-country ski trail.

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 LOIPE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LOIPE 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 89.1% of games, misses completely in 10.9%, and leaves about 105 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #953 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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 LOIPE 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.

5.27 Entropy (bits)
105 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 94% of evaluated openers
0.68 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LOIPE 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#953 Rank among openers
Opening with LOIPE solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.60 average. It ranks #953 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
75
3 guesses
984
4 guesses
1,122
5 guesses
158
6 guesses
15
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
3 vowels
Common:
EILO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
40%
All gray
11%

Feedback distribution

LOIPE can come back 110 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

258 answers
247 answers
137 answers
134 answers
127 answers
115 answers
110 answers
88 answers
75 answers
57 answers
53 answers
48 answers
47 answers
45 answers
43 answers
40 answers
40 answers
37 answers
37 answers
33 answers
32 answers
30 answers
28 answers
27 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1O1I1P3E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing LOIPE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LOIPE:

11% chance
Suggested:
CRUST
10% chance
Suggested:
RESET
6% chance
Suggested:
ARSON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

10.9%
CRUST 5.80 bits
10.4%
RESET 5.53 bits
5.8%
ARSON 5.18 bits
5.6%
SHART 4.99 bits
5.3%
SATIN 4.97 bits
4.8%
STARY 4.45 bits
4.6%
SAUNT 4.88 bits
3.7%
SERAL 4.39 bits
3.2%
SHART 4.87 bits
2.4%
CAROL 3.96 bits

Research on LOIPE

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

Optimal play

Opening with LOIPE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #718 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.78 guesses at best and is rank #824 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.60, at or below the proven-optimal 3.63, 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

One syllable Say it LOYP. 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.