5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

STOOP

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /stuːp//stup//stʉp/

Noun

A stooping, bent position of the body.

“The old man walked with a stoop.”

Noun

An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.

Verb

To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.

“He stooped to tie his shoe-laces.”

Verb

To lower oneself; to demean oneself in doing something below one's status, standards, or morals.

“Can you believe that a salesman would stoop so low as to hide his customers' car keys until they agreed to the purchase?”

Alternative forms: stoup, stowp

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 STOOP performs as a guess

STOOP 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 69.8% of games, misses completely in 30.2%, and leaves about 299 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,947 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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__O_ S in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _T__P T in the 2nd position and P in the 5th position

Try next

RAILE TREAT CARLE LIANE CRANE TONER
Words starting with S Words ending with P

First-turn measures

4.13 Entropy (bits)
299 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
87.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 29% of evaluated openers
1.82 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How STOOP 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
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#7,947 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, STOOP ranks #7,947 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
838
4 guesses
1,213
5 guesses
230
6 guesses
23
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:
OST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
29%
All gray
30%

Example solver route

R O A T E
P U N C H
S T O M P
S T O O P

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches STOOP in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

82 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

713
299
183
149
119
103
79
61
55
53
44
34
34
32
24
23
22
20
19
17
17
15
13
13
12
12
12
11
10
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing STOOP:

30% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
13% chance
Suggested:
TREAT
8% chance
Suggested:
CARLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.2% →
RAILE 6.30 bits
12.7% →
TREAT 5.58 bits
7.8% →
CARLE 5.06 bits
6.3% →
RAILE 5.21 bits
5.0% →
LIANE 5.36 bits
4.4% →
RAILE 5.11 bits
3.4% →
CRANE 4.96 bits
2.6% →
TONER 4.25 bits
2.3% →
MARLE 4.61 bits
2.2% →
URASE 4.46 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1T1O1O1P3
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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