5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

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 65.6% of games, misses completely in 34.4%, and leaves about 355 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,894 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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.

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

Try next

RAILE TIARE TALER LAIDE RANCE CRANE
Words starting with O Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.87 Entropy (bits)
355 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 opener: v5 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
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#11,894 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, OOPSY 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 (3.45 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

71 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

812
233
196
179
134
103
92
59
50
44
41
31
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25
23
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8

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.

34.4% →
RAILE 6.21 bits
9.9% →
TIARE 5.34 bits
8.3% →
TALER 5.12 bits
7.6% →
LAIDE 4.73 bits
5.7% →
RANCE 4.77 bits
4.4% →
CRANE 5.57 bits
3.9% →
REACT 5.06 bits
2.5% →
LATER 4.61 bits
2.1% →
REACT 4.23 bits
1.9% →
SAULT 4.25 bits

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.