STOOP
STOOP is on the solver's possible-answer list and has no appearance in our globally completed Wordle history.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /stuːp//stup//stʉp/
- Noun
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A stooping, bent position of the body.
“The old man walked with a stoop.”
- Noun
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An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.
- Verb
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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
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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.
Etymology
From Middle English stoupen, from Old English stūpian (“to bow, bend”), from Proto-West Germanic *stūpōn, from Proto-Germanic *stūpōną, *stūpijaną (“to stand out”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewb- (“to push, butt, knock”). Compare steep. Cognate with Dutch stuipen (“to bend the upper part of the body forward and downward”), Old Norse stúpa (“to stoop”). Related also to Old Frisian stēpa (“to help”), Old Norse steypa (“to cause to stoop, cast down, overthrow”).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it STOOP.
Rhymes with GROUP SCOOP TROOP SNOOP COUPE
Related meanings
Synonyms bow bend crouch
In a sentence
Don't stoop to his level.
I won't stoop to his level.
Use STOOP in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 87.4% 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
No completed appearanceNo appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.
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3 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #1082
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STOOP appeared in GET LOW (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #465
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STOOP appeared in GATHERING SPOT OUTSIDE A RESIDENCE (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #187
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STOOP appeared in GET LOW (green group).
How STOOP performs as a guess
STOOP 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 69.8% of games, misses completely in 30.2%, and leaves about 301 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,947 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe STOOP 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 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches STOOP in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
STOOP can come back 82 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 STOOP; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing STOOP
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to STOOP.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing STOOP:
Research on STOOP
Game-tree analysis and word research for STOOP, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with STOOP, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #9,354 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 #3,837 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.72, 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
- STOOP sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once 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 (3.4 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).