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DRAPE

Yes, DRAPE was the Wordle answer on September 25, 2025 (Wordle #1559).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /dɹeɪp/

Noun

A curtain; a drapery.

Noun

The way in which fabric falls or hangs.

Verb

To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery.

“to drape a bust, a building, etc.”

Verb

To spread over, cover.

“I draped my towel over the radiator to dry.”

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

Used once

Past Wordle answer: September 25, 2025 (#1559).

See the full page for that puzzle: September 25, 2025 (#1559).

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

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How DRAPE performs as a guess

DRAPE 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 85.8% of games, misses completely in 14.2%, and leaves about 111 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #307 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.57 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.

D___E D in the 1st position and E in the 5th position D__P_ D in the 1st position and P in the 4th position _R__E R in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe DRAPE 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.

5.35 Entropy (bits)
111 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 96% of evaluated openers
0.60 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How DRAPE 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.

3.57 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#307 Rank among openers
Opening with DRAPE left 3 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 3.57 average. It ranks #307 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
88
3 guesses
999
4 guesses
1,096
5 guesses
157
6 guesses
10
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
2 vowels
Common:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
39%
All gray
14%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C R I S P
D R A P E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches DRAPE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

DRAPE can come back 123 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

338 answers
194 answers
149 answers
130 answers
122 answers
106 answers
82 answers
72 answers
68 answers
60 answers
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42 answers
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23 answers
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17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2R1A1P3E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SOILY TALON BETEL SLEET TORUS CLASH

Strategy after playing DRAPE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DRAPE:

14% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
8% chance
Suggested:
TALON
6% chance
Suggested:
BETEL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.2% →
SOILY 5.68 bits
8.2% →
TALON 5.26 bits
6.3% →
BETEL 5.06 bits
5.5% →
SLEET 4.23 bits
5.1% →
SOILY 4.76 bits
4.5% →
TORUS 5.11 bits
3.5% →
CLASH 4.65 bits
3.0% →
CAROL 4.71 bits
2.9% →
PILOT 4.77 bits
2.5% →
CLEAN 4.28 bits

Research on DRAPE

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

Optimal play

Opening with DRAPE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.60 guesses and ranks #222 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 DRAPE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.57, at or below the proven-optimal 3.60, 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 DRAYP.

Rhymes with SHAPE GRAPE CREPE SCAPE AGAPE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, DRAPE is a kind of screen or way.

Synonyms curtain mantle CLOAK robe

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
DRAPE 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.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.8 of 5).

In a sentence

The wealthy display their dazzling luxury, the poor drape themselves proudly in their rags.
© tatoeba.org contributor Cangarejo (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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).