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Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

PLIPS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of plip

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 PLIPS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PLIPS 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 69.4% of games, misses completely in 30.6%, and leaves about 313 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,551 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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.

P___S P in the 1st position and S in the 5th position P__P_ P in the 1st position and P in the 4th position _L__S L in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ROATE RONTE TRONE BRACE LIBEL SALLE
Words starting with P Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.96 Entropy (bits)
313 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 21% of evaluated openers
1.99 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PLIPS 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#8,551 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PLIPS ranks #8,551 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
807
4 guesses
1,241
5 guesses
238
6 guesses
17
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
1 vowels
Common:
ILS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
69%
Green tile
26%
All gray
31%

Feedback distribution

77 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

722
278
228
200
113
103
72
58
50
49
49
47
34
27
24
23
22
22
18
17
14
12
12
11
10
9
7
7
6
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PLIPS:

31% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
12% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
10% chance
Suggested:
ROATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.6% →
ROATE 6.18 bits
11.8% →
ROATE 5.68 bits
9.7% →
ROATE 5.22 bits
8.5% →
RONTE 5.30 bits
4.8% →
TRONE 5.18 bits
4.4% →
BRACE 5.01 bits
3.1% →
LIBEL 4.14 bits
2.5% →
SALLE 4.73 bits
2.1% →
CARET 4.57 bits
2.1% →
STONE 4.19 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3L1I1P3S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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