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

ORPED

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of orp

Adjective

Bold, brave, valiant; active, alert; self-assured, hardy, vigorous.

Adjective

Ferocious; furious; fierce.

Alternative forms: orpit, horpyd

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

Etymology

From Middle English orped, orpud, from Old English orped (“grown up, adult, of full strength, stout, active, bold”), of unknown origin. Possibly from Old English or- (“without”) + pād (“tunic, cloak”), literally "without cloak, tunic-less" in the sense of "ready to fight, brave, daring" (compare English berserk), though many see this as unconvincing.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use ORPED in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.7% 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 ORPED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ORPED 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 83.2% of games, misses completely in 16.8%, and leaves about 151 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,581 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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 ORPED 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.

4.95 Entropy (bits)
151 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.7% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ORPED 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#1,581 Rank among openers
Opening with ORPED left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.61 average. It ranks #1,581 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
63
3 guesses
977
4 guesses
1,138
5 guesses
161
6 guesses
14

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
30%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

ORPED can come back 104 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

401 answers
282 answers
206 answers
104 answers
101 answers
96 answers
95 answers
76 answers
69 answers
68 answers
62 answers
60 answers
47 answers
46 answers
43 answers
33 answers
31 answers
29 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
20 answers
20 answers
16 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1R1P3E1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing ORPED

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ORPED:

17% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
12% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
9% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.8% →
SAINT 6.16 bits
11.8% →
SLATE 5.76 bits
8.6% →
SLANT 5.28 bits
4.4% →
SAULT 5.07 bits
4.2% →
REATE 4.53 bits
4.0% →
SLANT 4.09 bits
4.0% →
COAST 4.41 bits
3.2% →
PLAIN 4.90 bits
2.9% →
SLANT 4.74 bits
2.9% →
SAINT 4.64 bits

Research on ORPED

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

Optimal play

Opening with ORPED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #943 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 ORPED can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.61, at or below the proven-optimal 3.63, 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).