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OOPSY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 84.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈuːpsi//ˈʊpsi/

Interjection

Synonym of oops.

Noun

A mistake; often when babies and young children soil their pants.

“I have made an oopsy.”

Verb

To make a mistake, particularly (of a baby) to soil its pants.

“I think your baby might have oopsied.”

Alternative forms: oopsie

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 OOPSY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts OOPSY 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 65.5% of games, misses completely in 34.5%, and leaves about 358 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,894 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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.

O___Y O in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position O__S_ O in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _O__Y O in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe OOPSY 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.

3.87 Entropy (bits)
358 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
84.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 17% of evaluated openers
2.08 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How OOPSY 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#11,894 Rank among openers
Opening with OOPSY left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.81 average. It ranks #11,894 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
37
3 guesses
738
4 guesses
1,244
5 guesses
305
6 guesses
27
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:
OS

Feedback chances

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

Feedback distribution

OOPSY can come back 71 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

819 answers
235 answers
198 answers
181 answers
134 answers
103 answers
92 answers
59 answers
50 answers
44 answers
41 answers
31 answers
29 answers
28 answers
25 answers
23 answers
20 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1O1P3S1Y4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

RAILE TIARE TALER LAIDE RANCE CRANE

Strategy after playing OOPSY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OOPSY:

34% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
10% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
8% chance
Suggested:
TALER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

34.5% →
RAILE 6.21 bits
9.9% →
TIARE 5.35 bits
8.3% →
TALER 5.11 bits
7.6% →
LAIDE 4.72 bits
5.6% →
RANCE 4.77 bits
4.3% →
CRANE 5.57 bits
3.9% →
REACT 5.06 bits
2.5% →
LATER 4.60 bits
2.1% →
REACT 4.23 bits
1.9% →
SAULT 4.25 bits

Research on OOPSY

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

Optimal play

Opening with OOPSY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.82 guesses and ranks #11,680 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.97 guesses at best and is rank #5,689 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.81, at or below the proven-optimal 3.82, 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 OOPSEE. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
OOPSY sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

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 frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).