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PULPY

Yes, PULPY was the Wordle answer on November 4, 2021 (Wordle #138).

As an opener, it rules out about 81.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Having the characteristics of pulp.

“the pulpy texture of overripe fruit”

Adjective

Having the characteristics of pulp fiction; thus, having a garish focus on sex and violence.

“a pulpy TV thriller”

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: November 4, 2021 (#138).

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

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How PULPY performs as a guess

PULPY 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 60.9% of games, misses completely in 39.1%, and leaves about 447 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,036 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.84 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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___Y P in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position P__P_ P in the 1st position and P in the 4th position _U__Y U in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

TIARE SOARE SARED TRONE TRACE TARSE
Words starting with P Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.52 Entropy (bits)
447 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
81.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 7% of evaluated openers
2.43 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PULPY 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.

3.84 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#13,036 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PULPY ranks #13,036 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
672
4 guesses
1,266
5 guesses
335
6 guesses
33
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:
LU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
61%
Green tile
30%
All gray
39%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
B A D L Y
L U C K Y
P U L P Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PULPY in 5 guesses. See the trap-family guide for similar endgames.

Feedback distribution

71 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

922
330
185
166
90
85
58
58
57
39
38
29
27
25
22
22
21
21
19
12
11
8
7
6
5
5
5
5
5
4

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PULPY:

39% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
14% chance
Suggested:
SOARE
8% chance
Suggested:
SARED

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

39.1% →
TIARE 6.31 bits
14.0% →
SOARE 5.32 bits
7.8% →
SARED 4.98 bits
7.0% →
TRONE 5.40 bits
3.8% →
TRACE 4.66 bits
3.6% →
TARSE 5.34 bits
2.5% →
SAICE 4.58 bits
2.5% →
CRONE 5.09 bits
2.4% →
FLUTE 4.26 bits
1.7% →
LAIDE 3.84 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3U1L1P3Y4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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