5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

STROP

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /stɹɒp//stɹɑp/

Noun

A strap; more specifically a piece of leather or a substitute (notably canvas), or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, for honing a razor.

Noun

A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.

Verb

To hone (a razor or knife) with a strop.

“One should strop the razor before each shave.”

Verb

To mark a sequence of letters syntactically as having a special property, such as being a keyword, e.g. by enclosing in apostrophes as in 'foo' or writing in uppercase as in FOO.

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 STROP performs as a guess

Wordle accepts STROP 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 82.3% of games, misses completely in 17.7%, and leaves about 153 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #410 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 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

LIANE LAIDE TAINT CLADE GRADE TIARE
Words starting with S Words ending with P

First-turn measures

4.96 Entropy (bits)
153 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 81% of evaluated openers
0.99 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How STROP 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.

3.58 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#410 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, STROP ranks #410 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
74
3 guesses
1,021
4 guesses
1,088
5 guesses
161
6 guesses
9
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ORST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
28%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

110 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

418
244
194
172
109
90
88
73
71
60
51
39
38
36
35
28
27
26
26
25
24
24
22
21
20
18
17
16
15
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing STROP:

18% chance
Suggested:
LIANE
10% chance
Suggested:
LAIDE
8% chance
Suggested:
TAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.7% →
LIANE 6.20 bits
10.3% →
LAIDE 5.34 bits
8.2% →
TAINT 5.35 bits
7.3% →
CLADE 5.15 bits
4.6% →
LIANE 5.15 bits
3.8% →
GRADE 4.42 bits
3.7% →
TIARE 4.93 bits
3.1% →
PLAIN 4.98 bits
3.0% →
MASSE 4.84 bits
2.5% →
TONAL 4.14 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1T1R1O1P3
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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