5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet B tier opener

SETUP

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈsɛtʌp/[ˈsɛɾʌp]/ˈsetɐp/

Noun

Equipment designed for a particular purpose; an apparatus.

“The laboratory included an elaborate setup for measuring the energy.”

Noun

The fashion in which something is organized or arranged.

“The classroom setup was simple and efficient.”

Verb

Misspelling of set up.

Alternative forms: set-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

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 SETUP performs as a guess

SETUP 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 82.1% of games, misses completely in 17.9%, and leaves about 161 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,957 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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___P S in the 1st position and P in the 5th position S__U_ S in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _E__P E in the 2nd position and P in the 5th position

Try next

CAROL ARIEL TAROT LAIRY CURLY LAREE
Words starting with S Words ending with P

First-turn measures

4.93 Entropy (bits)
161 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 80% of evaluated openers
1.02 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SETUP 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#2,957 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SETUP ranks #2,957 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
66
3 guesses
932
4 guesses
1,161
5 guesses
172
6 guesses
20
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ESTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
33%
All gray
18%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L E E T
S E T U P

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SETUP in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

107 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

423
331
131
124
114
88
83
59
58
54
52
51
48
45
39
39
31
30
29
28
27
23
19
18
17
17
17
16
15
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SETUP:

18% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
14% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
6% chance
Suggested:
TAROT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.9% →
CAROL 6.04 bits
14.0% →
ARIEL 5.20 bits
5.6% →
TAROT 5.14 bits
5.3% →
LAIRY 4.65 bits
4.8% →
CURLY 4.62 bits
3.7% →
LAREE 4.76 bits
3.5% →
COALY 4.83 bits
2.5% →
RAINE 4.44 bits
2.5% →
RAINY 4.85 bits
2.3% →
CRASS 4.63 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1E1T1U1P3
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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