PEPSI
PEPSI is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.
Meaning and pronunciation
- Noun
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Alternative form of Pepsi (“person from Quebec”).
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
Originally short for Pepsi-Cola, coined in 1898 as a renaming of the brand from "Brad's Drink", in order to imply that the fizzy drink could cure dyspepsia. While some have suggested Pepsi is short for the digestive enzyme pepsin, sometimes with the assumption that pepsin was used as an ingredient in Pepsi, this is a folk etymology, as there is no official confirmation of it nor any evidence for a link between the enzyme and the beverage.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it PEHPSEE.
In a sentence
I'm a fan of Pepsi.
I'd like a glass of Pepsi.
Use PEPSI in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 89.7% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
NoThe solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.
Past Wordle answer
No completed appearanceNo 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.
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1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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PEPSI appeared in ENDING WITH GREEK LETTERS (purple group).
How PEPSI performs as a guess
Wordle accepts PEPSI 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 78.5% of games, misses completely in 21.5%, and leaves about 246 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,371 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 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.
First-turn measures
All four describe PEPSI 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How PEPSI 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Feedback distribution
PEPSI can come back 71 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for PEPSI; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing PEPSI
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to PEPSI.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing PEPSI:
Research on PEPSI
Game-tree analysis and word research for PEPSI, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with PEPSI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.82 guesses and ranks #11,745 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.96 guesses at best and is rank #5,542 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.82, at or below the proven-optimal 3.82, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- PEPSI sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 3 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).