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

TOPES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of tope

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative 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 TOPES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TOPES 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 86.9% of games, misses completely in 13.1%, and leaves about 122 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,545 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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___S T in the 1st position and S in the 5th position T__E_ T in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position TO_ES T in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TOPES 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.

5.13 Entropy (bits)
122 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 89% of evaluated openers
0.82 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TOPES 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#1,545 Rank among openers
Opening with TOPES left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.61 average. It ranks #1,545 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
69
3 guesses
967
4 guesses
1,139
5 guesses
164
6 guesses
13
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:
EOST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
31%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

TOPES can come back 104 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

312 answers
280 answers
136 answers
127 answers
126 answers
106 answers
104 answers
85 answers
77 answers
67 answers
56 answers
52 answers
45 answers
37 answers
37 answers
35 answers
35 answers
34 answers
31 answers
31 answers
30 answers
29 answers
28 answers
21 answers
20 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1O1P3E1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

CAIRN LEARE ACORN ARIEL SHALY CLARY

Strategy after playing TOPES

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TOPES:

13% chance
Suggested:
CAIRN
12% chance
Suggested:
LEARE
6% chance
Suggested:
ACORN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.1% →
CAIRN 5.96 bits
11.8% →
LEARE 5.47 bits
5.7% →
ACORN 5.21 bits
5.3% →
ARIEL 4.27 bits
5.3% →
SHALY 5.04 bits
4.5% →
CLARY 4.60 bits
4.4% →
HAUNT 4.92 bits
3.6% →
LEARE 4.81 bits
3.2% →
SEARE 4.53 bits
2.8% →
SAINT 4.55 bits

Research on TOPES

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

Optimal play

Opening with TOPES, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #876 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.76 guesses at best and is rank #425 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.61, 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 TOHPS. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

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

Synonyms CLEAR lead COVER pass DRINK CROWN

Opposites bottom side

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TOPES sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

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).