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RUPEE

Yes, RUPEE was the Wordle answer on March 1, 2022 (Wordle #255).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˌɹuːˈpiː//ɹʊ-//ɹuˈpi/

Noun

Any of the monetary currencies used in modern India, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, the Seychelles, or Sri Lanka.

Noun

A silver coin circulating in India between the 16th and 20th centuries, weighing one tola (formerly 170–180 troy grains; from 1833, 180 troy grains).

Alternative forms: Rs, Re, ₨, ₹

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: March 1, 2022 (#255).

See the full page for that puzzle: March 1, 2022 (#255).

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

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How RUPEE performs as a guess

RUPEE 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 77.7% of games, misses completely in 22.3%, and leaves about 194 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,933 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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___E R in the 1st position and E in the 5th position R__E_ R in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _U__E U in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe RUPEE 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.

4.64 Entropy (bits)
194 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 61% of evaluated openers
1.30 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RUPEE 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#6,933 Rank among openers
Opening with RUPEE left 3 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 3.70 average. It ranks #6,933 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
867
4 guesses
1,159
5 guesses
249
6 guesses
17
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:
ERU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
42%
All gray
22%

Example solver route

R O A T E
D U L S E
R U P E E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches RUPEE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

RUPEE can come back 94 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

530 answers
258 answers
157 answers
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Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1U1P3E1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

TALON COAST SLANT DEALT SAINT SONLY

Strategy after playing RUPEE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RUPEE:

22% chance
Suggested:
TALON
11% chance
Suggested:
COAST
7% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.3% →
TALON 5.85 bits
10.9% →
COAST 5.34 bits
6.6% →
SLANT 5.28 bits
6.4% →
DEALT 5.46 bits
4.8% →
SLANT 5.28 bits
3.9% →
SAINT 3.81 bits
3.7% →
SONLY 3.99 bits
3.5% →
SLANT 5.22 bits
3.2% →
ALIEN 4.24 bits
2.9% →
COAST 4.44 bits

Research on RUPEE

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

Optimal play

Opening with RUPEE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,176 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 RUPEE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.70, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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 second syllable Say it ROOPEE.

Rhymes with THREE AGREE SPREE LOUIE JOLIE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, RUPEE is a kind of unit.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
RUPEE sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (2.5 of 5).

In a sentence

He didn't have a single rupee.
© tatoeba.org contributor shekitten (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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).