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

RUPIA

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɹuːpi.ə/

Noun

An ulcer due to syphilis.

Noun

The former currencies of Italian Somaliland and Portuguese India.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ῥυπία (rhupía), from ῥύπος (rhúpos, “filth”).

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use RUPIA in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.4% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How RUPIA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RUPIA 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 88.4% of games, misses completely in 11.6%, and leaves about 157 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,494 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe RUPIA 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.

4.76 Entropy (bits)
157 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.4% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RUPIA 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#5,494 Rank among openers
Opening with RUPIA left 2 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 3.68 average. It ranks #5,494 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
916
4 guesses
1,124
5 guesses
234
6 guesses
20

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AIRU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
22%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

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

354 answers
276 answers
221 answers
202 answers
189 answers
98 answers
91 answers
79 answers
53 answers
51 answers
51 answers
44 answers
42 answers
41 answers
35 answers
32 answers
29 answers
27 answers
27 answers
27 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1U1P3I1A1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing RUPIA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RUPIA:

15% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
12% chance
Suggested:
STOLE
9% chance
Suggested:
SIENT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.8% →
SLATE 5.63 bits
11.6% →
STOLE 5.60 bits
9.3% →
SIENT 5.23 bits
8.5% →
SORED 5.01 bits
7.9% →
TRACE 4.77 bits
4.1% →
STONE 5.05 bits
3.8% →
SNIDE 4.36 bits
3.3% →
SONLY 3.97 bits
2.2% →
STOLE 4.77 bits
2.1% →
LEAST 5.00 bits

Research on RUPIA

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

Optimal play

Opening with RUPIA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,108 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.84 guesses at best and is rank #2,385 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).