SNOOP
Yes, SNOOP was the Wordle answer on November 2, 2024 (Wordle #1232).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /snuːp/
- Verb
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To be devious and cunning so as not to be seen.
- Verb
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To secretly spy on or investigate, especially into the private personal life of others.
“If I had not snooped on her, I wouldn't have found out that she lied about her degree.”
- Noun
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The act of snooping.
- Noun
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One who snoops.
“Be careful what you say around Gene because he's the bosses' snoop.”
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Dutch snoepen (“to pry, eat in secret, sneak”). Related to Dutch and Low German snappen (“to bite, seize”), Dutch snavel (“beak, bill, pecker, neb”), German Schnabel (“beak, bill, mouth”). More at snap.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it SNOOP.
Rhymes with GROUP SCOOP TROOP COUPE SWOOP
Related meanings
Synonyms spy stag
In a sentence
Don't snoop around my house.
Don't snoop in my boxes!
Use SNOOP in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 87.0% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: November 2, 2024 (#1232).
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2 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #767
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SNOOP appeared in MEDDLE (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #465
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SNOOP appeared in CARTOON DOGS MINUS “Y” (purple group).
How SNOOP performs as a guess
SNOOP 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 68.4% of games, misses completely in 31.6%, and leaves about 311 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,818 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe SNOOP 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How SNOOP 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches SNOOP in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
SNOOP can come back 79 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for SNOOP; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing SNOOP
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to SNOOP.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing SNOOP:
Research on SNOOP
Game-tree analysis and word research for SNOOP, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with SNOOP, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #8,998 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.88 guesses at best and is rank #3,796 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.74, at or below the proven-optimal 3.77, 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
- SNOOP sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 3 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.0 of 5).
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).