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

NAPPE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /nap/

Noun

The profile of a body of water flowing over an obstruction in a vertical drop.

Noun

Either of the two parts of a double cone.

Verb

To coat (a food) with liquid.

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 NAPPE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NAPPE 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 81.7% of games, misses completely in 18.3%, and leaves about 186 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,718 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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.
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Useful pattern pages

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

N___E N in the 1st position and E in the 5th position N__P_ N in the 1st position and P in the 4th position _A__E A in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe NAPPE 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.

4.41 Entropy (bits)
186 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 45% of evaluated openers
1.54 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How NAPPE 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#10,718 Rank among openers
Opening with NAPPE left 4 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 3.78 average. It ranks #10,718 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
734
4 guesses
1,272
5 guesses
266
6 guesses
25
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:
AEN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
33%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

NAPPE can come back 75 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

435 answers
278 answers
235 answers
167 answers
166 answers
122 answers
103 answers
91 answers
89 answers
74 answers
73 answers
48 answers
45 answers
39 answers
38 answers
37 answers
28 answers
25 answers
24 answers
16 answers
14 answers
13 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1A1P3P3E1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

COURT DETER SLART SOILY SATYR INTER

Strategy after playing NAPPE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NAPPE:

18% chance
Suggested:
COURT
12% chance
Suggested:
DETER
10% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.3% →
COURT 5.82 bits
11.7% →
DETER 5.47 bits
9.9% →
SLART 5.41 bits
7.0% →
SOILY 4.53 bits
7.0% →
SOILY 4.89 bits
5.1% →
SATYR 3.98 bits
4.3% →
SLART 4.83 bits
3.8% →
INTER 4.33 bits
3.7% →
SLART 4.49 bits
3.1% →
GRANT 4.47 bits

Research on NAPPE

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

Optimal play

Opening with NAPPE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses and ranks #10,203 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 NAPPE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.78, at or below the proven-optimal 3.79, 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 NAP. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
NAPPE 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), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).