5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet B tier opener

SLURP

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /slɜːp//slɝp/

Verb

To eat or drink noisily.

“They sat in the kitchen slurping their spaghetti.”

Verb

To make a loud sucking noise.

“The mud slurped under our shoes.”

Noun

A loud sucking noise, especially one made in eating or drinking.

Noun

A mouthful of liquid sucked up.

“I took another slurp of my soup.”

Alternative forms: shlurp, slorp

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 SLURP performs as a guess

SLURP 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 82.5% of games, misses completely in 17.5%, and leaves about 170 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,359 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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__R_ S in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _L__P L in the 2nd position and P in the 5th position

Try next

CANOE CADET LABEL THANE CONTE ATONE
Words starting with S Words ending with P

First-turn measures

4.81 Entropy (bits)
170 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 72% of evaluated openers
1.13 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SLURP 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#1,359 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SLURP ranks #1,359 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
69
3 guesses
978
4 guesses
1,121
5 guesses
171
6 guesses
12
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
1 vowels
Common:
LRSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
32%
All gray
18%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I C K
S L U R P

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SLURP in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

106 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

412
348
205
111
91
90
84
71
65
57
53
47
43
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36
33
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13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SLURP:

17% chance
Suggested:
CANOE
15% chance
Suggested:
CADET
9% chance
Suggested:
LABEL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.5% →
CANOE 6.03 bits
14.8% →
CADET 5.45 bits
8.7% →
LABEL 5.15 bits
4.7% →
THANE 5.20 bits
3.9% →
CONTE 4.80 bits
3.8% →
ATONE 4.89 bits
3.6% →
BOITE 5.04 bits
3.0% →
BEATY 4.80 bits
2.8% →
THANE 5.06 bits
2.4% →
ARIEL 4.12 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1L1U1R1P3
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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