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Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

SUPES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adverb

super; extremely.

Noun

plural of supe

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 SUPES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SUPES 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 74.9% of games, misses completely in 25.1%, and leaves about 266 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,587 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 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___S S in the 1st position and S in the 5th position S__E_ S in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _U__S U in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe SUPES 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.

4.18 Entropy (bits)
266 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 31% of evaluated openers
1.77 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SUPES 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.75 Spread of game lengths
#12,587 Rank among openers
Opening with SUPES left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.75 means those games clustered within about 0.75 of a guess of the 3.83 average. It ranks #12,587 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
689
4 guesses
1,234
5 guesses
340
6 guesses
31
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ESU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
38%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

SUPES can come back 82 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

595 answers
409 answers
211 answers
129 answers
101 answers
96 answers
77 answers
73 answers
60 answers
53 answers
51 answers
48 answers
36 answers
34 answers
26 answers
25 answers
23 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1U1P3E1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

TALON LEARE OATER LAIRY COUNT CLARY

Strategy after playing SUPES

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SUPES:

25% chance
Suggested:
TALON
17% chance
Suggested:
LEARE
9% chance
Suggested:
OATER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.1% →
TALON 5.86 bits
17.2% →
LEARE 5.47 bits
8.9% →
OATER 4.24 bits
5.4% →
LAIRY 4.68 bits
4.3% →
COUNT 4.81 bits
4.0% →
CLARY 4.33 bits
3.2% →
ROANY 4.96 bits
3.1% →
TIARE 4.12 bits
2.5% →
TRASH 4.70 bits
2.2% →
ROATE 4.43 bits

Research on SUPES

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

Optimal play

Opening with SUPES, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.81 guesses and ranks #11,020 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with SUPES can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.83; proven optimal play reaches 3.81. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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

One syllable Say it SOOPS. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SUPES is a kind of taste or have.

Synonyms swallow

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SUPES 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).