Possible answer Not used yet B tier for first-turn info

COUPE

COUPE is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 93.5% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kuːp//kup//kʉːp/

Noun

A shallow glass or glass dish, usually with a stem, in which sparkling wine or desserts are served.

Noun

An ice cream dessert served in a coupe glass.

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

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 COUPE performs as a guess

COUPE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 84.9% of games, misses completely in 15.1%, and leaves about 153 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,564 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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 COUPE 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.

4.92 Entropy (bits)
153 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 79% of evaluated openers
1.02 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How COUPE 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#3,564 Rank among openers
Opening with COUPE left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.65 average. It ranks #3,564 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
951
4 guesses
1,131
5 guesses
200
6 guesses
15
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

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
EOU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
40%
All gray
15%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L U M P
C O U P E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches COUPE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

COUPE can come back 103 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

358 answers
348 answers
175 answers
161 answers
112 answers
99 answers
68 answers
60 answers
58 answers
58 answers
53 answers
47 answers
43 answers
39 answers
37 answers
36 answers
36 answers
32 answers
29 answers
27 answers
26 answers
24 answers
23 answers
23 answers
21 answers
20 answers
18 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3O1U1P3E1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Strategy after playing COUPE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing COUPE:

15% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
15% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
7% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.1%
SAINT 5.90 bits
14.7%
ALTER 5.34 bits
7.4%
SLART 5.28 bits
6.8%
ARSON 5.38 bits
4.7%
SLART 4.51 bits
4.2%
SNARY 4.66 bits
2.9%
SAINT 5.11 bits
2.5%
SHALT 4.70 bits
2.4%
PLIER 4.85 bits
2.4%
SLANT 4.84 bits

Research on COUPE

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

Optimal play

Opening with COUPE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #2,690 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.82 guesses at best and is rank #1,859 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it KOOP.

Rhymes with GROUP SCOOP TROOP SNOOP SWOOP

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, COUPE is a kind of car.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
COUPE 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 sight (3.9 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).