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PLOPS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of plop

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of plop

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 PLOPS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PLOPS 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 70.8% of games, misses completely in 29.2%, and leaves about 305 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,530 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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.

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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

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

First-turn measures

All four describe PLOPS 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.

3.94 Entropy (bits)
305 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 20% of evaluated openers
2.00 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PLOPS 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#10,530 Rank among openers
Opening with PLOPS left 1 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 3.77 average. It ranks #10,530 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
753
4 guesses
1,264
5 guesses
269
6 guesses
21
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
1 vowels
Common:
LOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
25%
All gray
29%

Feedback distribution

PLOPS can come back 75 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

694 answers
276 answers
257 answers
242 answers
93 answers
91 answers
75 answers
57 answers
55 answers
55 answers
54 answers
44 answers
36 answers
34 answers
27 answers
20 answers
19 answers
17 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3L1O1P3S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

TIARE TONER RAILE BRACE BRANE LOYAL

Strategy after playing PLOPS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PLOPS:

29% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
12% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
11% chance
Suggested:
TONER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.2% →
TIARE 6.30 bits
11.6% →
TIARE 5.69 bits
10.8% →
TONER 5.39 bits
10.2% →
RAILE 5.39 bits
3.9% →
BRACE 4.90 bits
3.8% →
BRANE 4.71 bits
3.2% →
LOYAL 4.14 bits
2.4% →
SALLE 4.60 bits
2.3% →
CRUET 4.07 bits
2.3% →
NAICE 4.91 bits

Research on PLOPS

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

Optimal play

Opening with PLOPS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,508 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.91 guesses at best and is rank #4,330 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.77, at or below the proven-optimal 3.80, 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 PLAHPS. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, PLOPS is a kind of noise or drop.

Synonyms PLANK PLUMP

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PLOPS 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 sound (3.5 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 relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).