5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

PULPS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 83.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of pulp

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of pulp

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 PULPS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PULPS 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 64.8% of games, misses completely in 35.2%, and leaves about 388 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,196 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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.

Useful pattern pages

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

P___S P in the 1st position and S in the 5th position P__P_ P in the 1st position and P in the 4th position _U__S U in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ROATE TIARE TRONE CATER RAILE THALE
Words starting with P Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.68 Entropy (bits)
388 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 11% of evaluated openers
2.27 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PULPS 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#11,196 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PULPS ranks #11,196 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
48
3 guesses
750
4 guesses
1,228
5 guesses
305
6 guesses
22
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
1 vowels
Common:
LSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
65%
Green tile
21%
All gray
35%

Feedback distribution

72 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

831
303
287
110
94
72
71
64
56
55
48
41
32
24
21
21
17
17
16
16
12
11
10
10
9
9
8
7
7
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PULPS:

35% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
13% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
12% chance
Suggested:
TIARE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

35.2% →
ROATE 6.10 bits
12.8% →
ROATE 5.33 bits
12.2% →
TIARE 5.79 bits
4.7% →
TRONE 5.43 bits
4.0% →
CATER 4.48 bits
3.1% →
RAILE 4.50 bits
3.0% →
THALE 4.91 bits
2.7% →
CRONE 5.09 bits
2.4% →
TIARE 4.56 bits
2.3% →
SHUNT 4.27 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3U1L1P3S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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