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

CAPRI

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A deep shade of sky blue between cyan and azure.

Noun

Used in capri pants.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

Named after the colour of the sea around the Italian island of Capri, especially in the Blue Grotto.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

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

In a sentence

Capri is one of the most beautiful islands in Italy.
© tatoeba.org contributor CM (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use CAPRI in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.9% of possible answers.

Open Solver with CAPRI Open Word Finder

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

CAPRI in Connections

4 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How CAPRI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CAPRI 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 85.1% of games, misses completely in 14.9%, and leaves about 144 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,128 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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.

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Useful pattern pages

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

C___I C in the 1st position and I in the 5th position C__R_ C in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _A__I A in the 2nd position and I in the 5th position CA_RI C in the 1st position, A in the 2nd position, R in the 4th position, and I in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe CAPRI 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.

4.90 Entropy (bits)
144 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.9% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CAPRI 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#2,128 Rank among openers
Opening with CAPRI left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.62 average. It ranks #2,128 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
986
4 guesses
1,114
5 guesses
179
6 guesses
16

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
28%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

CAPRI can come back 97 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

356 answers
241 answers
216 answers
215 answers
125 answers
99 answers
93 answers
72 answers
59 answers
54 answers
50 answers
47 answers
45 answers
42 answers
38 answers
38 answers
35 answers
32 answers
31 answers
29 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3A1P3R1I1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

STOLE SIENT ROUET SLATE SNIDE BEAST

Strategy after playing CAPRI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CAPRI:

15% chance
Suggested:
STOLE
10% chance
Suggested:
SIENT
9% chance
Suggested:
ROUET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.9% →
STOLE 5.96 bits
10.1% →
SIENT 5.39 bits
9.1% →
ROUET 5.28 bits
9.0% →
SLATE 5.77 bits
5.2% →
STOLE 4.63 bits
4.2% →
SNIDE 4.42 bits
3.9% →
BEAST 4.47 bits
3.0% →
STOLE 5.06 bits
2.5% →
LUNCH 4.74 bits
2.3% →
SLYER 3.81 bits

Research on CAPRI

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

Optimal play

Opening with CAPRI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #2,855 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.78 guesses at best and is rank #777 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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
CAPRI sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).