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SLOOP

Yes, SLOOP was the Wordle answer on September 27, 2026 (Wordle #1926).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /sluːp/

Noun

A single-masted sailboat with only one headsail.

Noun

A sailing warship, smaller than a frigate, with its guns all on one deck.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch sloep. Doublet of chalupa and shallop.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

One syllable Say it SLOOP.

Rhymes with GROUP SCOOP TROOP SNOOP COUPE

Use SLOOP in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 88.3% of possible answers.

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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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: September 27, 2026 (#1926).

See the full page for that puzzle: September 27, 2026 (#1926).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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SLOOP in Connections

1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How SLOOP performs as a guess

SLOOP is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 70.8% of games, misses completely in 29.2%, and leaves about 278 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,744 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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__O_ S in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _L__P L in the 2nd position and P in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe SLOOP 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.

4.24 Entropy (bits)
278 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
88.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SLOOP 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#7,744 Rank among openers
Opening with SLOOP left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.72 average. It ranks #7,744 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
836
4 guesses
1,208
5 guesses
237
6 guesses
19

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
LOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
34%
All gray
29%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I N K
S L O O P

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SLOOP in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

SLOOP can come back 88 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

695 answers
242 answers
183 answers
165 answers
133 answers
107 answers
93 answers
68 answers
61 answers
57 answers
42 answers
37 answers
36 answers
30 answers
29 answers
28 answers
23 answers
22 answers
20 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
14 answers
13 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1L1O1O1P3
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

TIARE RAILE RONTE THANE PAIRE BRACE

Strategy after playing SLOOP

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SLOOP:

29% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
10% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
8% chance
Suggested:
RONTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.2% →
TIARE 6.30 bits
10.2% →
RAILE 5.39 bits
7.7% →
RONTE 5.24 bits
6.9% →
THANE 5.31 bits
5.6% →
TIARE 5.41 bits
4.5% →
PAIRE 5.31 bits
3.9% →
BRACE 4.90 bits
2.9% →
CRANE 4.80 bits
2.6% →
LOYAL 3.88 bits
2.4% →
CARNE 4.44 bits

Research on SLOOP

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

Optimal play

Opening with SLOOP, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #7,844 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.86 guesses at best and is rank #3,279 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.72, at or below the proven-optimal 3.75, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SLOOP sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).