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SOUPY

Yes, SOUPY was the Wordle answer on September 5, 2026 (Wordle #1904).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈsuːpi/

Adjective

Resembling soup; creamy.

Adjective

Extravagantly sentimental; slushy.

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

Used once

Past Wordle answer: September 5, 2026 (#1904).

See the full page for that puzzle: September 5, 2026 (#1904).

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

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How SOUPY performs as a guess

SOUPY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 73.1% of games, misses completely in 26.9%, and leaves about 238 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,549 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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___Y S in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position S__P_ S in the 1st position and P in the 4th position _O__Y O in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe SOUPY 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.

4.49 Entropy (bits)
238 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 51% of evaluated openers
1.45 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SOUPY 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#5,549 Rank among openers
Opening with SOUPY solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.68 average. It ranks #5,549 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
890
4 guesses
1,187
5 guesses
209
6 guesses
15
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:
OSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
43%
All gray
27%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S C O L D
S O G G Y
S O U P Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SOUPY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

SOUPY can come back 92 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

639 answers
213 answers
155 answers
142 answers
121 answers
118 answers
94 answers
90 answers
62 answers
52 answers
44 answers
42 answers
37 answers
34 answers
28 answers
28 answers
26 answers
26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
17 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1O1U1P3Y4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

RAILE CRANE LEANT TRADE RANCE TALER

Strategy after playing SOUPY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SOUPY:

27% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
9% chance
Suggested:
CRANE
7% chance
Suggested:
LEANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.9% →
RAILE 6.12 bits
9.0% →
CRANE 5.32 bits
6.5% →
LEANT 5.35 bits
6.0% →
TRADE 4.88 bits
5.1% →
RANCE 4.81 bits
5.0% →
LEANT 5.05 bits
4.0% →
TALER 5.31 bits
3.8% →
PLIER 5.41 bits
2.6% →
TRACE 4.77 bits
2.2% →
DROLE 3.80 bits

Research on SOUPY

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

Optimal play

Opening with SOUPY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,425 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 #3,292 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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 SOOPEE.

Rhymes with LOOPY

Related meanings

Synonyms sentimental emotional THICK

Opposites thin

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SOUPY 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.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.9 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).