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

KOPEK

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.2% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A Russian monetary unit equal to one hundredth of a ruble.

Noun

A kopiyka: a Ukrainian monetary unit equal to one hundredth of a hryvnia.

Alternative forms: copeck, kopeck, kopeika, kopejka

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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

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 KOPEK performs as a guess

Wordle accepts KOPEK 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 75.7% of games, misses completely in 24.3%, and leaves about 305 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,827 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.89 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 KOPEK 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.

3.72 Entropy (bits)
305 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 12% of evaluated openers
2.23 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How KOPEK 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.

3.89 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#13,827 Rank among openers
Opening with KOPEK left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.89 average. It ranks #13,827 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
37
3 guesses
609
4 guesses
1,305
5 guesses
382
6 guesses
19
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
30%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

KOPEK can come back 55 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

576 answers
486 answers
221 answers
202 answers
177 answers
102 answers
81 answers
72 answers
66 answers
47 answers
36 answers
30 answers
26 answers
25 answers
23 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
10 answers
8 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
5 answers
4 answers
3 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

K5O1P3E1K5
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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

Strategy after playing KOPEK

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing KOPEK:

24% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
20% chance
Suggested:
REATE
9% chance
Suggested:
ARSON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.3%
SAINT 6.07 bits
20.5%
REATE 5.52 bits
9.3%
ARSON 5.30 bits
8.5%
STAIR 4.67 bits
7.5%
SLANT 4.36 bits
4.3%
SLATY 5.19 bits
3.4%
SNARE 4.38 bits
3.0%
STAIR 4.70 bits
2.8%
SLANT 4.60 bits
2.0%
MOWER 3.03 bits

Research on KOPEK

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

Optimal play

Opening with KOPEK, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.86 guesses and ranks #12,980 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.04 guesses at best and is rank #6,626 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.89; proven optimal play reaches 3.86. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, KOPEK is a kind of unit.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
KOPEK sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

In a sentence

I don't have a single kopek.
© tatoeba.org contributor shekitten (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).