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

TOPED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of tope

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 TOPED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TOPED 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 84.4% of games, misses completely in 15.6%, and leaves about 140 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,246 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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.
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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

T___D T in the 1st position and D in the 5th position T__E_ T in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__D O in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position TO_ED T in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and D in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TOPED 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.

4.98 Entropy (bits)
140 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 82% of evaluated openers
0.97 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TOPED 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#2,246 Rank among openers
Opening with TOPED solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.62 average. It ranks #2,246 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
68
3 guesses
942
4 guesses
1,158
5 guesses
179
6 guesses
7
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
33%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

TOPED can come back 100 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

371 answers
282 answers
154 answers
144 answers
121 answers
112 answers
86 answers
81 answers
68 answers
55 answers
51 answers
50 answers
49 answers
46 answers
40 answers
40 answers
36 answers
31 answers
31 answers
25 answers
24 answers
23 answers
20 answers
20 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1O1P3E1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SLAIN LEARE SAINT ARSON LASER SLART

Strategy after playing TOPED

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TOPED:

16% chance
Suggested:
SLAIN
12% chance
Suggested:
LEARE
6% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.6% →
SLAIN 5.90 bits
11.9% →
LEARE 5.40 bits
6.5% →
SAINT 5.42 bits
6.1% →
ARSON 5.28 bits
5.1% →
LASER 4.37 bits
4.7% →
SLART 5.15 bits
3.6% →
CLARY 4.68 bits
3.4% →
SNARY 5.04 bits
2.9% →
GEARE 4.65 bits
2.3% →
SLANE 4.24 bits

Research on TOPED

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

Optimal play

Opening with TOPED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #797 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 TOPED can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.63, 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it TOHPT. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, TOPED is a kind of part or side.

Synonyms CLEAR lead COVER pass DRINK CROWN

Opposites bottom side

Familiarity and learning

Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.1 of 5).

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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).