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

LEPAK

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.8% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˌleɪˈpɑk/[ˌle(ː)ˈpɑk̚]

Verb

To loiter about casually or idly, to hang around unproductively, to laze around or relax.

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 LEPAK performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LEPAK 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 83.8% of games, misses completely in 16.2%, and leaves about 171 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,543 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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.

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

First-turn measures

All four describe LEPAK 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.

4.71 Entropy (bits)
171 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 66% of evaluated openers
1.24 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LEPAK 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#6,543 Rank among openers
Opening with LEPAK solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.69 average. It ranks #6,543 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
67
3 guesses
839
4 guesses
1,209
5 guesses
224
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
2 vowels
Common:
AEL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
25%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

LEPAK can come back 100 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

384 answers
316 answers
266 answers
138 answers
127 answers
115 answers
90 answers
85 answers
76 answers
61 answers
48 answers
43 answers
39 answers
35 answers
35 answers
31 answers
24 answers
22 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1E1P3A1K5
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Strategy after playing LEPAK

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LEPAK:

16% chance
Suggested:
SNORT
13% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
11% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.2%
SNORT 5.86 bits
13.3%
TRONE 5.39 bits
11.2%
TRAIN 5.23 bits
5.8%
TARSE 4.70 bits
5.3%
GUILD 4.72 bits
4.8%
DETER 4.46 bits
3.8%
TOILE 4.50 bits
3.6%
STALL 4.41 bits
3.2%
POSIT 4.97 bits
2.6%
SIREE 4.78 bits

Research on LEPAK

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

Optimal play

Opening with LEPAK, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #5,134 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.81 guesses at best and is rank #1,743 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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

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

Rhymes with EPOCH

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
LEPAK 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.

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).