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ZIPPO

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

As an opener, it rules out about 78.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈzɪpəʊ//ˈzɪpoʊ/

Adjective

Zero; none whatsoever.

Noun

Zero. Typically used for emphasis, as when the listener might expect a positive quantity.

“We got 200 consoles and we sold 200 consoles and 200 minus 200 is ZIPPO, so I can't sell you anything right now.”

Verb

To light on fire.

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 ZIPPO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ZIPPO 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 61.8% of games, misses completely in 38.2%, and leaves about 510 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,452 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.95 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

Z___O Z in the 1st position and O in the 5th position Z__P_ Z in the 1st position and P in the 4th position _I__O I in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe ZIPPO 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.

3.00 Entropy (bits)
510 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
78.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 2% of evaluated openers
2.95 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ZIPPO 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.

3.95 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#14,452 Rank among openers
Opening with ZIPPO left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.95 average. It ranks #14,452 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
32
3 guesses
546
4 guesses
1,317
5 guesses
421
6 guesses
34
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
IO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
62%
Green tile
15%
All gray
38%

Feedback distribution

ZIPPO can come back 51 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

906 answers
481 answers
328 answers
156 answers
126 answers
52 answers
46 answers
41 answers
35 answers
25 answers
22 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
3 answers
3 answers
2 answers
2 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Z10I1P3P3O1
Total: 18 points

Words With Friends

Total: 20 points

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

Try next

REAST TALER LEANT SALET SERAL TOXIN

Strategy after playing ZIPPO

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ZIPPO:

38% chance
Suggested:
REAST
20% chance
Suggested:
TALER
14% chance
Suggested:
LEANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

38.2% →
REAST 6.22 bits
20.3% →
TALER 5.17 bits
13.8% →
LEANT 5.36 bits
6.6% →
SALET 4.67 bits
5.3% →
SERAL 5.59 bits
2.2% →
TOXIN 4.20 bits
1.9% →
SENOR 4.12 bits
1.7% →
SLICE 4.44 bits
1.5% →
CARTE 4.30 bits
1.1% →
EARLY 4.13 bits

Research on ZIPPO

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

Optimal play

Opening with ZIPPO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.97 guesses and ranks #14,550 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.11 guesses at best and is rank #7,193 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.95, at or below the proven-optimal 3.97, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it ZIHPOH.

Rhymes with HIPPO

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, ZIPPO is a kind of amount.

Synonyms nothing zero zip null nil nada

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
ZIPPO sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

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).