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

IGAPO

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of igapó.

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

Use IGAPO in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 92.0% of possible answers.

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.

How IGAPO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts IGAPO 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 85.8% of games, misses completely in 14.2%, and leaves about 190 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,581 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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 IGAPO 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.

4.36 Entropy (bits)
190 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.0% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How IGAPO 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#8,581 Rank among openers
Opening with IGAPO 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 3.73 average. It ranks #8,581 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
789
4 guesses
1,257
5 guesses
242
6 guesses
11

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AIO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
19%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

IGAPO can come back 79 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

338 answers
320 answers
284 answers
273 answers
191 answers
94 answers
79 answers
69 answers
69 answers
56 answers
52 answers
49 answers
47 answers
46 answers
44 answers
42 answers
32 answers
26 answers
24 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
12 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

I1G2A1P3O1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing IGAPO

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing IGAPO:

14% chance
Suggested:
SLEER
13% chance
Suggested:
RONTE
12% chance
Suggested:
STILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.2% →
SLEER 5.81 bits
13.4% →
RONTE 5.35 bits
11.9% →
STILE 5.28 bits
11.5% →
TALER 5.55 bits
8.0% →
STURE 4.96 bits
3.9% →
ACTOR 4.45 bits
3.3% →
RATEL 4.40 bits
2.9% →
SLYER 5.07 bits
2.9% →
TRINE 4.60 bits
2.3% →
TRICE 4.70 bits

Research on IGAPO

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

Optimal play

Opening with IGAPO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.78 guesses and ranks #9,519 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.89 guesses at best and is rank #3,930 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.73, at or below the proven-optimal 3.78, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).