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PUPIL

Yes, PUPIL was the Wordle answer on February 6, 2025 (Wordle #1328).

As an opener, it rules out about 85.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈpjuːpəl//ˈpj̥uːpəɫ/

Noun

A learner at a school under the supervision of a teacher.

Noun

One who studies under supervision of a renowned expert in their field.

“Plato was Socrates' pupil, and in turn Aristotle was Plato's pupil.”

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: February 6, 2025 (#1328).

See the full page for that puzzle: February 6, 2025 (#1328).

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How PUPIL performs as a guess

PUPIL is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 67.7% of games, misses completely in 32.3%, and leaves about 339 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,080 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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.

P___L P in the 1st position and L in the 5th position P__I_ P in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _U__L U in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe PUPIL 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.

3.88 Entropy (bits)
339 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
85.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 17% of evaluated openers
2.07 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PUPIL 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
99.75% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#10,080 Rank among openers
Opening with PUPIL left 6 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 3.76 average. It ranks #10,080 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
766
4 guesses
1,229
5 guesses
282
6 guesses
18
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:
ILU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
26%
All gray
32%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
C I V I L
P U P I L

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PUPIL in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

PUPIL can come back 84 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

766 answers
288 answers
250 answers
154 answers
107 answers
87 answers
85 answers
84 answers
75 answers
51 answers
48 answers
27 answers
24 answers
24 answers
22 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3U1P3I1L1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Try next

TRACE TRINE SLANE TRONE MORNE CARET

Strategy after playing PUPIL

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PUPIL:

32% chance
Suggested:
TRACE
12% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
11% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.3% →
TRACE 6.28 bits
12.1% →
TRINE 5.49 bits
10.5% →
SLANE 5.26 bits
6.5% →
TRONE 5.33 bits
4.5% →
MORNE 4.37 bits
3.7% →
CARET 5.04 bits
3.6% →
ANILE 4.25 bits
3.5% →
OATER 4.62 bits
3.2% →
TARSE 5.23 bits
2.1% →
ARSEY 4.92 bits

Research on PUPIL

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

Optimal play

Opening with PUPIL, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.83 guesses and ranks #11,889 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.95 guesses at best and is rank #5,326 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.76, at or below the proven-optimal 3.83, 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 PYOOPUHL.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, PUPIL is a kind of actor or aperture.

Synonyms student

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PUPIL sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 6 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 89 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.3 of 5).

In a sentence

He is not a pupil.
© tatoeba.org contributor sundown (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Are you a school pupil?
© tatoeba.org contributor sundown (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).