5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet F tier opener

SAPPY

SAPPY is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 86.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈsæpi/

Adjective

Excessively sweet, emotional, nostalgic; cheesy; mushy. (British equivalent: soppy)

“It was a sappy love song, but it reminded them of their first dance.”

Adjective

Having (a particularly large amount of) sap.

Alternative forms: sapy

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

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 SAPPY performs as a guess

SAPPY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 70.3% of games, misses completely in 29.7%, and leaves about 309 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,393 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.

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.

S___Y S in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position S__P_ S in the 1st position and P in the 4th position _A__Y A in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE ALERT RONTE TRINE DROLE ROUET
Words starting with S Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.94 Entropy (bits)
309 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
86.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 20% of evaluated openers
2.01 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SAPPY 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
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#10,393 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SAPPY ranks #10,393 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
741
4 guesses
1,278
5 guesses
265
6 guesses
18
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:
AS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
41%
All gray
30%

Example solver route

R O A T E
N A S A L
B I C E P
S A P P Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SAPPY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

76 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

700
353
158
158
157
113
82
76
53
50
47
36
34
25
24
22
22
18
18
15
15
14
13
9
9
8
8
8
6
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SAPPY:

30% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
15% chance
Suggested:
ALERT
7% chance
Suggested:
RONTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.7% →
TOILE 6.07 bits
15.0% →
ALERT 5.54 bits
6.7% →
RONTE 4.85 bits
6.7% →
TRINE 5.20 bits
6.7% →
DROLE 4.85 bits
4.8% →
ROUET 5.51 bits
3.5% →
LEANT 4.50 bits
3.2% →
CRINE 5.19 bits
2.2% →
TRINE 3.47 bits
2.1% →
THALE 4.34 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1A1P3P3Y4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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