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PAPER

Yes, PAPER was the Wordle answer on July 24, 2021 (Wordle #35).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪ̯.pə//ˈpeɪ̯.pəɹ/[ˈpʰeɪ̯.pɚ]

Noun

A sheet material typically used for writing on or printing on (or as a non-waterproof container), usually made by draining cellulose fibres from a suspension in water.

“Draw on the paper! Not on the walls!”

Noun

Ellipsis of newspaper; anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).

“Read all about it in this morning's paper!”

Adjective

Made of paper.

Adjective

Insubstantial (from the weakness of common paper).

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: July 24, 2021 (#35).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How PAPER performs as a guess

PAPER is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 82.5% of games, misses completely in 17.5%, and leaves about 166 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,223 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

P___R P in the 1st position and R in the 5th position P__E_ P in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__R A in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position PA_ER P in the 1st position, A in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and R in the 5th position

Try next

SOILY TOILE SLANT COURT SLATE SONLY
Words starting with P Words ending with R

First-turn measures

4.60 Entropy (bits)
166 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 59% of evaluated openers
1.34 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PAPER 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#10,223 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PAPER ranks #10,223 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
753
4 guesses
1,235
5 guesses
275
6 guesses
25
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AER

Feedback chances

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

Example solver route

R O A T E
G L E A M
P E I S Y
P A P E R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PAPER in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

86 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

412
255
185
174
137
131
116
105
96
86
67
42
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34
31
29
25
24
21
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11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PAPER:

17% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
11% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
8% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.5% →
SOILY 5.65 bits
10.8% →
TOILE 5.27 bits
7.8% →
SLANT 5.30 bits
7.4% →
COURT 5.08 bits
5.8% →
SLATE 4.97 bits
5.6% →
SONLY 4.55 bits
4.9% →
TOISE 4.56 bits
4.5% →
CRAFT 4.14 bits
4.1% →
SOILY 3.48 bits
3.6% →
OLDEN 4.16 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3A1P3E1R1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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