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RAPID

Yes, RAPID was the Wordle answer on February 12, 2025 (Wordle #1334).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɹæpɪd/

Adjective

Very swift or quick.

“a rapid stream”

Adjective

Steep, changing altitude quickly. (of a slope)

Noun

A rough section of a river or stream which is difficult to navigate due to the swift and turbulent motion of the water.

Noun

Ellipsis of rapid chess.

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 12, 2025 (#1334).

See the full page for that puzzle: February 12, 2025 (#1334).

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

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How RAPID performs as a guess

RAPID 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 84.7% of games, misses completely in 15.3%, and leaves about 149 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,145 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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.

R___D R in the 1st position and D in the 5th position R__I_ R in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _A__D A in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe RAPID 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.

4.89 Entropy (bits)
149 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 77% of evaluated openers
1.06 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RAPID 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#1,145 Rank among openers
Opening with RAPID left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.60 average. It ranks #1,145 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
65
3 guesses
984
4 guesses
1,129
5 guesses
166
6 guesses
8
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
28%
All gray
15%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C H I L D
R A B I D
R A P I D

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches RAPID in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

RAPID can come back 108 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

364 answers
233 answers
233 answers
202 answers
142 answers
129 answers
77 answers
75 answers
62 answers
53 answers
43 answers
43 answers
39 answers
37 answers
36 answers
34 answers
34 answers
31 answers
25 answers
25 answers
20 answers
19 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1A1P3I1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

STOLE SLATE TOUSE SIENT CLOTE TRACE

Strategy after playing RAPID

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RAPID:

15% chance
Suggested:
STOLE
10% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
10% chance
Suggested:
TOUSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.3% →
STOLE 5.98 bits
9.8% →
SLATE 5.77 bits
9.8% →
TOUSE 5.59 bits
8.5% →
SIENT 5.36 bits
6.0% →
CLOTE 4.75 bits
5.4% →
TRACE 4.83 bits
3.2% →
SHULE 4.98 bits
3.2% →
SIENT 4.47 bits
2.6% →
DODGE 4.45 bits
2.2% →
SMOTE 3.75 bits

Research on RAPID

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

Optimal play

Opening with RAPID, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #862 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with RAPID can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.60, at or below the proven-optimal 3.63, 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 RAPUHD.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, RAPID is a kind of waterway.

Synonyms speedy fast

Opposites slow

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
RAPID sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 24 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.

In a sentence

There is a rapid increase in world population.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Tom is not a rapid reader.
© tatoeba.org contributor karloelkebekio (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.