STRIP
Yes, STRIP was the Wordle answer on August 18, 2026 (Wordle #1886).
As an opener, it rules out about 93.4% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈstɹɪp/[ˈstɹ̝̊ʷɪp][ˈst̠ɹ̠̊˔ʷɪp]
- Noun
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A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.
“The countries were in dispute over the ownership of a strip of desert about 100 metres wide.”
- Noun
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A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.
“Papier mache is made from strips of paper.”
- Verb
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To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
“Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.”
- Verb
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To take off clothing.
“Seeing that no one else was about, he stripped and dived into the river.”
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
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: August 18, 2026 (#1886).
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See what the public sample says →How STRIP performs as a guess
STRIP 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 81.8% of games, misses completely in 18.2%, and leaves about 156 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #382 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe STRIP 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 STRIP 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 STRIP in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
STRIP can come back 113 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 STRIP; 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 STRIP
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to STRIP.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing STRIP:
Research on STRIP
Game-tree analysis and word research for STRIP, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with STRIP, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.64 guesses and ranks #1,093 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.73 guesses at best and is rank #134 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.58, at or below the proven-optimal 3.64, 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.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, STRIP is a kind of part or artifact.
Synonyms CLEAN slip bare RIFLE peel loot
Opposites DRESS
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- STRIP sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 23 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- Learner level
- Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 9, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 69 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.4 of 5).
In a sentence
Are you going to the strip club?
It's a strip club for women.
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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).