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QUIPU

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

As an opener, it rules out about 74.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈki.pu/

Noun

A recording device, used by the Incas, consisting of intricate knotted cords.

Alternative forms: khipu, quipo

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 QUIPU performs as a guess

Wordle accepts QUIPU 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 53.7% of games, misses completely in 46.3%, and leaves about 605 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,766 of 14,855 openers, averaging 4.04 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.

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Useful pattern pages

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

_U__U U in the 2nd position and U in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe QUIPU 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.

2.81 Entropy (bits)
605 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
74.5% Avg ruled out
In the bottom 1% for first-turn entropy
3.14 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How QUIPU 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.

4.04 Avg guesses
99.75% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#14,766 Rank among openers
Opening with QUIPU left 6 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 4.04 average. It ranks #14,766 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
17
3 guesses
489
4 guesses
1,279
5 guesses
508
6 guesses
55
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
3 vowels
Common:
IU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
54%
Green tile
21%
All gray
46%

Feedback distribution

QUIPU can come back 34 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1100 answers
309 answers
206 answers
203 answers
164 answers
116 answers
46 answers
36 answers
34 answers
32 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
11 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
2 answers
2 answers
2 answers
2 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Q10U1I1P3U1
Total: 16 points

Words With Friends

Total: 19 points

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

Try next

ROATE LATER SLANE TORSE TARSE SLYER

Strategy after playing QUIPU

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing QUIPU:

46% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
13% chance
Suggested:
LATER
9% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

46.3% →
ROATE 6.02 bits
13.0% →
LATER 5.16 bits
8.7% →
SLANE 4.96 bits
8.6% →
TORSE 5.26 bits
6.9% →
TARSE 5.64 bits
4.9% →
SLYER 4.35 bits
1.9% →
PALET 4.45 bits
1.5% →
SONCE 4.12 bits
1.4% →
AROSE 4.54 bits
1.3% →
SLURP 4.16 bits

Research on QUIPU

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

Optimal play

Opening with QUIPU, a proven-optimal strategy averages 4.04 guesses and ranks #14,772 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.20 guesses at best and is rank #7,387 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 4.04, at or below the proven-optimal 4.04, 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 KWIHPOO. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, QUIPU is a kind of calculator.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
QUIPU 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).