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

SITUP

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.1% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative spelling of sit-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 SITUP performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SITUP 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 74.6% of games, misses completely in 25.4%, and leaves about 210 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,997 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe SITUP 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.

4.71 Entropy (bits)
210 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 66% of evaluated openers
1.23 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SITUP 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#1,997 Rank among openers
Opening with SITUP left 2 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 3.62 average. It ranks #1,997 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
66
3 guesses
976
4 guesses
1,114
5 guesses
180
6 guesses
16
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ISTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
32%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

SITUP can come back 105 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

602 answers
184 answers
151 answers
138 answers
109 answers
98 answers
86 answers
71 answers
64 answers
60 answers
60 answers
53 answers
43 answers
35 answers
34 answers
30 answers
28 answers
28 answers
27 answers
25 answers
24 answers
23 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1I1T1U1P3
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing SITUP

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SITUP:

25% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
8% chance
Suggested:
CRANE
6% chance
Suggested:
TREAT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.4%
CARLE 6.17 bits
7.8%
CRANE 5.58 bits
6.4%
TREAT 5.44 bits
5.8%
RANCE 4.84 bits
4.6%
CARLE 5.22 bits
4.1%
DROLE 4.82 bits
3.6%
PARLE 5.51 bits
3.0%
HAOLE 4.99 bits
2.7%
TRINE 4.68 bits
2.5%
CANER 4.69 bits

Research on SITUP

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

Optimal play

Opening with SITUP, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #3,012 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.79 guesses at best and is rank #1,152 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it SIHTUHP. 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.