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

PEPLA

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of peplum

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

Use PEPLA in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 91.3% 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 PEPLA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PEPLA 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 81.5% of games, misses completely in 18.5%, and leaves about 207 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,894 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe PEPLA 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.

4.34 Entropy (bits)
207 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PEPLA 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#10,894 Rank among openers
Opening with PEPLA left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.78 average. It ranks #10,894 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
722
4 guesses
1,267
5 guesses
285
6 guesses
20

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AEL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
26%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

PEPLA can come back 83 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

441 answers
334 answers
297 answers
175 answers
120 answers
118 answers
109 answers
84 answers
63 answers
58 answers
48 answers
37 answers
36 answers
36 answers
35 answers
31 answers
29 answers
27 answers
26 answers
25 answers
21 answers
16 answers
16 answers
13 answers
13 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3E1P3L1A1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Strategy after playing PEPLA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PEPLA:

18% chance
Suggested:
SNORT
14% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
12% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.5% →
SNORT 5.90 bits
14.0% →
TRONE 5.39 bits
12.5% →
TRAIN 5.29 bits
7.3% →
TARSE 4.81 bits
5.0% →
TERSE 4.51 bits
4.9% →
SONAR 4.49 bits
4.6% →
CLOUT 4.62 bits
3.5% →
DOREE 4.14 bits
2.6% →
DRILL 3.96 bits
2.4% →
TARGE 3.86 bits

Research on PEPLA

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

Optimal play

Opening with PEPLA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,734 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 PEPLA can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.78, at or below the proven-optimal 3.80, 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).