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

YOPPO

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

No dictionary definition for YOPPO is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 73.2% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 YOPPO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts YOPPO 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 51.7% of games, misses completely in 48.3%, and leaves about 635 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,693 of 14,855 openers, averaging 4.01 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe YOPPO 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.

2.89 Entropy (bits)
635 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
73.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 1% of evaluated openers
3.05 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How YOPPO 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.

4.01 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.75 Spread of game lengths
#14,693 Rank among openers
Opening with YOPPO left 3 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 4.01 average. It ranks #14,693 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
27
3 guesses
523
4 guesses
1,258
5 guesses
494
6 guesses
49
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

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
O

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
52%
Green tile
18%
All gray
48%

Feedback distribution

YOPPO can come back 47 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1146 answers
263 answers
255 answers
166 answers
152 answers
51 answers
40 answers
32 answers
28 answers
26 answers
24 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
9 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
2 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Y4O1P3P3O1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Strategy after playing YOPPO

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing YOPPO:

48% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
11% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
11% chance
Suggested:
CRATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

48.3%
RAILE 6.11 bits
11.1%
RAILE 4.93 bits
10.7%
CRATE 5.23 bits
7.0%
CRUET 4.90 bits
6.4%
SLANE 5.60 bits
2.1%
DROLE 3.38 bits
1.7%
GRAME 4.28 bits
1.3%
SUITE 4.22 bits
1.2%
RAILE 4.66 bits
1.1%
PRISE 4.10 bits

Research on YOPPO

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

Optimal play

Opening with YOPPO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.98 guesses and ranks #14,607 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.16 guesses at best and is rank #7,312 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 4.01; proven optimal play reaches 3.98. 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it YAHPOH. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.