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

OPEPE

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Synonym of bilinga (tropical hardwood)

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

Use OPEPE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 86.0% 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 OPEPE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts OPEPE 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 71.6% of games, misses completely in 28.4%, and leaves about 335 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,998 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.90 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 OPEPE 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.

3.67 Entropy (bits)
335 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.0% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How OPEPE 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.

3.90 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#13,998 Rank among openers
Opening with OPEPE left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.90 average. It ranks #13,998 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
622
4 guesses
1,257
5 guesses
400
6 guesses
33

Composition

3/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
EO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
29%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

OPEPE can come back 60 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

678 answers
408 answers
294 answers
213 answers
93 answers
82 answers
79 answers
78 answers
50 answers
49 answers
42 answers
39 answers
38 answers
22 answers
20 answers
16 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1P3E1P3E1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing OPEPE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OPEPE:

28% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
17% chance
Suggested:
SONAR
12% chance
Suggested:
LATER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.4% →
SAINT 6.04 bits
17.1% →
SONAR 5.04 bits
12.3% →
LATER 5.32 bits
8.9% →
SLART 5.09 bits
3.9% →
STAIR 5.14 bits
3.4% →
SLART 4.97 bits
3.3% →
MOWER 3.82 bits
3.3% →
SONAR 4.09 bits
2.1% →
SERAL 4.07 bits
2.1% →
TALER 3.88 bits

Research on OPEPE

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

Optimal play

Opening with OPEPE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.90 guesses and ranks #13,908 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.09 guesses at best and is rank #7,061 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.90, at or below the proven-optimal 3.90, 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).