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

PIPAL

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of peepul.

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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

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

How PIPAL performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PIPAL 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 76.2% of games, misses completely in 23.8%, and leaves about 255 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,431 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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.
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Useful pattern pages

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

P___L P in the 1st position and L in the 5th position P__A_ P in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _I__L I in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in PIPAL.

First-turn measures

All four describe PIPAL 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.

4.16 Entropy (bits)
255 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 30% of evaluated openers
1.79 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PIPAL 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#9,431 Rank among openers
Opening with PIPAL left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.75 average. It ranks #9,431 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
783
4 guesses
1,230
5 guesses
268
6 guesses
17
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
26%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

PIPAL can come back 80 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

566 answers
396 answers
205 answers
164 answers
134 answers
120 answers
76 answers
65 answers
60 answers
58 answers
43 answers
39 answers
37 answers
34 answers
32 answers
24 answers
24 answers
22 answers
21 answers
18 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
7 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3I1P3A1L1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

TORSE CRATE TRINE SOUCE STALE RONTE

Strategy after playing PIPAL

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PIPAL:

24% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
17% chance
Suggested:
CRATE
9% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.8% →
TORSE 6.26 bits
16.7% →
CRATE 5.60 bits
8.6% →
TRINE 5.62 bits
6.9% →
SOUCE 5.25 bits
5.6% →
STALE 4.79 bits
5.1% →
RONTE 4.78 bits
3.2% →
SATIN 4.55 bits
2.7% →
TRODE 4.47 bits
2.5% →
SLICE 4.29 bits
2.4% →
STURE 4.92 bits

Research on PIPAL

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

Optimal play

Opening with PIPAL, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,920 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.92 guesses at best and is rank #4,603 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.75, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it PYPUHL. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, PIPAL is a kind of tree.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PIPAL sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).