5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

SOUPS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of soup

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of soup

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 SOUPS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SOUPS 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 66.0% of games, misses completely in 34.0%, and leaves about 346 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,360 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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___S S in the 1st position and S in the 5th position S__P_ S in the 1st position and P in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TIARE ADORN TALER LEANT RANCE PLIER
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.91 Entropy (bits)
346 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 19% of evaluated openers
2.04 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SOUPS 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#11,360 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SOUPS ranks #11,360 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
743
4 guesses
1,250
5 guesses
296
6 guesses
21
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
OSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
66%
Green tile
34%
All gray
34%

Feedback distribution

71 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

802
228
176
168
155
115
88
63
48
47
35
30
28
25
25
23
22
20
19
17
17
14
14
13
11
11
11
9
7
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SOUPS:

34% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
10% chance
Suggested:
ADORN
7% chance
Suggested:
TALER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

34.0% →
TIARE 6.15 bits
9.7% →
ADORN 5.27 bits
7.5% →
TALER 4.60 bits
7.1% →
LEANT 5.39 bits
6.6% →
RANCE 4.87 bits
4.9% →
PLIER 5.42 bits
3.7% →
TALER 5.33 bits
2.7% →
TRACE 4.76 bits
2.0% →
REACT 3.95 bits
2.0% →
CARET 4.38 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1O1U1P3S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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