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Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

RASPS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of rasp

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of rasp

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 RASPS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RASPS 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 77.3% of games, misses completely in 22.7%, and leaves about 228 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,356 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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.
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Useful pattern pages

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

R___S R in the 1st position and S in the 5th position R__P_ R in the 1st position and P in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe RASPS 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.

4.24 Entropy (bits)
228 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 35% of evaluated openers
1.71 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RASPS 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#9,356 Rank among openers
Opening with RASPS solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.75 average. It ranks #9,356 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
43
3 guesses
791
4 guesses
1,250
5 guesses
257
6 guesses
13
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
1 vowels
Common:
ARS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
22%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

RASPS can come back 74 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

538 answers
304 answers
225 answers
171 answers
153 answers
148 answers
91 answers
72 answers
69 answers
53 answers
49 answers
48 answers
46 answers
34 answers
32 answers
24 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
11 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1A1S1P3S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

TOILE ALATE TRACE CONTE STALE TOUSE

Strategy after playing RASPS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RASPS:

23% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
13% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
9% chance
Suggested:
ALATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.7% →
TOILE 6.11 bits
12.8% →
TOILE 5.29 bits
9.5% →
ALATE 5.42 bits
7.2% →
TOILE 5.41 bits
6.4% →
TRACE 4.76 bits
6.2% →
CONTE 4.68 bits
3.8% →
STALE 4.82 bits
3.0% →
TOUSE 4.68 bits
2.9% →
TUILE 4.99 bits
2.2% →
CLOTE 3.95 bits

Research on RASPS

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

Optimal play

Opening with RASPS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses and ranks #10,084 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.90 guesses at best and is rank #4,267 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.75, at or below the proven-optimal 3.79, 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

One syllable Say it RASPS.

Rhymes with GASPS

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, RASPS is a kind of communication or file.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
RASPS 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.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (3.2 of 5).

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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).