5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

POPUP

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

As an opener, it rules out about 74.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of pop-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 POPUP performs as a guess

Wordle accepts POPUP 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 53.9% of games, misses completely in 46.1%, and leaves about 598 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,725 of 14,855 openers, averaging 4.02 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___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

Try next

TIARE SANER SLANE TALER IRATE ARIEL
Words starting with P Words ending with P

First-turn measures

2.90 Entropy (bits)
598 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
74.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 1% of evaluated openers
3.05 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How POPUP 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.

4.02 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.75 Volatility
#14,725 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, POPUP ranks #14,725 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
23
3 guesses
520
4 guesses
1,241
5 guesses
515
6 guesses
51
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

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
OU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
54%
Green tile
25%
All gray
46%

Feedback distribution

43 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

1088
303
267
213
78
64
47
38
31
29
25
21
19
19
16
12
12
10
9
9
6
4
4
3
3
3
2
2
2
2

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing POPUP:

46% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
13% chance
Suggested:
SANER
11% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

46.1% →
TIARE 6.16 bits
12.8% →
SANER 5.26 bits
11.3% →
SLANE 5.05 bits
9.0% →
TALER 4.67 bits
3.3% →
IRATE 5.04 bits
2.7% →
ARIEL 4.99 bits
2.0% →
RANSE 4.56 bits
1.6% →
SHART 3.44 bits
1.3% →
RAILE 4.69 bits
1.2% →
SLART 4.49 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3O1P3U1P3
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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