WHOOP
Yes, WHOOP was the Wordle answer on September 5, 2022 (Wordle #443).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /wuːp//ʍuːp//wʊp/
- Noun
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A loud, eager cry, usually of joy.
- Noun
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A gasp, characteristic of whooping cough.
- Verb
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To make a whoop.
- Verb
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To shout, to yell.
Alternative forms: hoop, howp, whup
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English whopen, whowpen, howpen, houpen (“to whoop, cry out”), partially from Old French houper, hopper, houpper (“to shout”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwōpan, from Proto-Germanic *hwōpaną (“to boast, threaten”) (compare Gothic 𐍈𐍉𐍀𐌰𐌽 (ƕōpan, “to boast”), Old English hwōpan (“to threaten”)); and partially from Middle English wop (“weeping, lamentation”), from Old English wōp (“cry, outcry, shrieking, weeping, lamentation”), from Proto-West Germanic *wōp, from Proto-Germanic *wōpaz (“…
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it WOOP.
Rhymes with GROUP SCOOP TROOP SNOOP COUPE
Related meanings
Synonyms hack
In a sentence
Tom let out a whoop of delight.
I'll whoop your ass so hard, you'll regret it.
Use WHOOP in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 77.1% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: September 5, 2022 (#443).
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1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #484
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WHOOP appeared in SOUNDS OF LAUGHTER (blue group).
How WHOOP performs as a guess
WHOOP is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 54.8% of games, misses completely in 45.2%, and leaves about 547 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,428 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.86 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe WHOOP 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How WHOOP 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches WHOOP in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
WHOOP can come back 66 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for WHOOP; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing WHOOP
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to WHOOP.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing WHOOP:
Research on WHOOP
Game-tree analysis and word research for WHOOP, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with WHOOP, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.88 guesses and ranks #13,424 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 4.00 guesses at best and is rank #6,224 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.86, at or below the proven-optimal 3.88, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- WHOOP sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 2 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (3.5 of 5).
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).