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Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier for first-turn info

POUPT

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

No dictionary definition for POUPT is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 86.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 POUPT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts POUPT 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 68.5% of games, misses completely in 31.5%, and leaves about 318 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,759 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

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Useful pattern pages

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

P___T P in the 1st position and T in the 5th position P__P_ P in the 1st position and P in the 4th position _O__T O in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe POUPT 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.

3.99 Entropy (bits)
318 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 22% of evaluated openers
1.95 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How POUPT 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#10,759 Rank among openers
Opening with POUPT left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.78 average. It ranks #10,759 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
778
4 guesses
1,213
5 guesses
296
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:
OTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
32%
All gray
32%

Feedback distribution

POUPT can come back 76 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

748 answers
233 answers
225 answers
161 answers
158 answers
124 answers
79 answers
63 answers
60 answers
47 answers
39 answers
29 answers
26 answers
25 answers
23 answers
20 answers
20 answers
20 answers
20 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3O1U1P3T1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

RAILE CRANE TARTE SILER CARLE SERAL

Strategy after playing POUPT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing POUPT:

32% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
10% chance
Suggested:
CRANE
9% chance
Suggested:
TARTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.5% →
RAILE 6.20 bits
9.8% →
CRANE 5.44 bits
9.5% →
TARTE 5.62 bits
6.8% →
SILER 4.84 bits
6.7% →
CARLE 4.72 bits
5.2% →
SERAL 5.22 bits
3.3% →
SLIER 5.37 bits
2.7% →
SLANE 4.62 bits
2.5% →
CARNE 5.18 bits
2.0% →
SENOR 4.50 bits

Research on POUPT

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

Optimal play

Opening with POUPT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.81 guesses and ranks #11,010 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with POUPT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.78, at or below the proven-optimal 3.81, 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 POOPT. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.