CUPID
CUPID is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈkjuːpɪd//ˈkjupɪd/
- Noun
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A putto carrying a bow and arrow, representing Cupid or love.
- Noun
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Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genera Chilades, Cupido and Everes.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it KYOOPIHD.
In a sentence
Well, Cupid is a terrible sniper.
Cupid had shot his arrow right into my heart.
Use CUPID in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 88.0% 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
NoThe solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.
Past Wordle answer
No completed appearanceNo appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.
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See what the public sample says →CUPID in Connections
2 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #563
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CUPID appeared in ARCHERS (green group).
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· Puzzle #72
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CUPID appeared in SANTA’S REINDEER (green group).
How CUPID performs as a guess
Wordle accepts CUPID 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 70.1% of games, misses completely in 29.9%, and leaves about 286 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,290 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe CUPID 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 CUPID 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
Feedback distribution
CUPID can come back 89 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 CUPID; 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 CUPID
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to CUPID.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing CUPID:
Research on CUPID
Game-tree analysis and word research for CUPID, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with CUPID, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #4,395 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with CUPID can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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
- CUPID 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 (2.4 of 5).
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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).