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

LEPTA

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of lepton (coin)

Noun

Alternative form of lepton.

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

Use LEPTA in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 95.3% 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 LEPTA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LEPTA 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 89.0% of games, misses completely in 11.0%, and leaves about 113 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,789 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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 LEPTA 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.

5.17 Entropy (bits)
113 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LEPTA 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#1,789 Rank among openers
Opening with LEPTA left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.62 average. It ranks #1,789 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
88
3 guesses
926
4 guesses
1,159
5 guesses
163
6 guesses
17

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AELT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
23%
All gray
11%

Feedback distribution

LEPTA can come back 118 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

263 answers
235 answers
195 answers
133 answers
125 answers
121 answers
101 answers
87 answers
84 answers
84 answers
74 answers
63 answers
54 answers
51 answers
45 answers
36 answers
29 answers
29 answers
28 answers
27 answers
23 answers
23 answers
23 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1E1P3T1A1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing LEPTA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LEPTA:

11% chance
Suggested:
CRONY
10% chance
Suggested:
DRONE
8% chance
Suggested:
CAIRN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.0% →
CRONY 5.64 bits
9.9% →
DRONE 5.34 bits
8.2% →
CAIRN 5.27 bits
5.6% →
HOIST 5.33 bits
5.2% →
GUILD 4.60 bits
5.1% →
SARGE 4.50 bits
4.2% →
SNAIL 4.31 bits
3.6% →
SCANT 4.60 bits
3.5% →
SIREE 4.97 bits
3.5% →
DENSE 4.41 bits

Research on LEPTA

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

Optimal play

Opening with LEPTA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.64 guesses and ranks #1,082 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.73 guesses at best and is rank #119 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.64, 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).