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PINUP

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

As an opener, it rules out about 84.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of pin-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 PINUP performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PINUP 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 64.2% of games, misses completely in 35.8%, and leaves about 381 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,415 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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.
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Useful pattern pages

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

P___P P in the 1st position and P in the 5th position P__U_ P in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _I__P I in the 2nd position and P in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe PINUP 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.

3.73 Entropy (bits)
381 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
84.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 13% of evaluated openers
2.22 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PINUP 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#11,415 Rank among openers
Opening with PINUP left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.79 average. It ranks #11,415 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
736
4 guesses
1,269
5 guesses
286
6 guesses
22
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:
INU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
64%
Green tile
23%
All gray
36%

Feedback distribution

PINUP can come back 68 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

850 answers
225 answers
207 answers
188 answers
130 answers
103 answers
79 answers
62 answers
57 answers
55 answers
52 answers
35 answers
31 answers
30 answers
26 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3I1N1U1P3
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Try next

TARSE TRACE SOREL SALET SAGER CAGEY

Strategy after playing PINUP

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PINUP:

36% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
9% chance
Suggested:
TRACE
9% chance
Suggested:
SOREL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

35.8% →
TARSE 6.27 bits
9.5% →
TRACE 5.47 bits
8.7% →
SOREL 5.08 bits
7.9% →
SOREL 5.19 bits
5.5% →
SALET 4.61 bits
4.3% →
SAGER 4.52 bits
3.3% →
TARSE 5.40 bits
2.6% →
CAGEY 4.50 bits
2.4% →
SLART 4.03 bits
2.3% →
ROAST 4.72 bits

Research on PINUP

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

Optimal play

Opening with PINUP, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.85 guesses and ranks #12,630 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.99 guesses at best and is rank #6,102 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.79, at or below the proven-optimal 3.85, 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 PYNUHP. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PINUP 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 (4.4 of 5).

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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).