5 FiveLetterWords
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WHELP

Yes, WHELP was the Wordle answer on July 26, 2021 (Wordle #37).

As an opener, it rules out about 89.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /wɛlp//ʍɛlp/

Noun

A young offspring of a various carnivores (canid, ursid, felid, pinniped), especially of a dog or a wolf, the young of a bear or similar mammal (lion, tiger, seal); a pup, wolf cub.

Noun

An insolent youth; a mere child.

Verb

To give birth.

“The bitch whelped.”

Interjection

Alternative form of welp (“well”).

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: July 26, 2021 (#37).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How WHELP performs as a guess

WHELP is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 77.4% of games, misses completely in 22.6%, and leaves about 248 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,715 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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.

W___P W in the 1st position and P in the 5th position W__L_ W in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _H__P H in the 2nd position and P in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIN ROATE SONAR LEARE COAST STAIR
Words starting with W Words ending with P

First-turn measures

4.25 Entropy (bits)
248 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
89.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 36% of evaluated openers
1.70 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WHELP 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#8,715 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WHELP ranks #8,715 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
56
3 guesses
772
4 guesses
1,275
5 guesses
239
6 guesses
11
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:
EL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
23%
All gray
23%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E N
D E U C E
W H E L P

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches WHELP in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

83 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

534
437
193
140
107
85
85
75
73
53
47
38
35
26
26
25
25
25
22
22
19
19
19
18
17
15
10
10
8
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WHELP:

23% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
19% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
8% chance
Suggested:
SONAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.6% →
TRAIN 6.01 bits
18.5% →
ROATE 5.29 bits
8.2% →
SONAR 5.15 bits
5.9% →
LEARE 4.65 bits
4.5% →
COAST 4.92 bits
3.6% →
STAIR 5.12 bits
3.6% →
PRISE 4.85 bits
3.2% →
IDYLL 4.12 bits
3.1% →
TRADE 4.42 bits
2.2% →
STAIR 4.69 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4H4E1L1P3
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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