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

RURPS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of RURP

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

Use RURPS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 86.7% 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 RURPS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RURPS 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 70.0% of games, misses completely in 30.0%, and leaves about 317 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,214 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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 RURPS 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.

3.97 Entropy (bits)
317 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.7% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RURPS 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#10,214 Rank among openers
Opening with RURPS left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.77 average. It ranks #10,214 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
781
4 guesses
1,206
5 guesses
287
6 guesses
24

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
RSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
21%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

RURPS can come back 80 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

716 answers
336 answers
271 answers
105 answers
94 answers
91 answers
76 answers
74 answers
71 answers
51 answers
51 answers
46 answers
43 answers
28 answers
21 answers
19 answers
18 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
8 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1U1R1P3S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing RURPS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RURPS:

30% chance
Suggested:
ALONE
14% chance
Suggested:
IRATE
11% chance
Suggested:
STALE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.0% →
ALONE 6.05 bits
14.1% →
IRATE 5.22 bits
11.4% →
STALE 5.73 bits
4.4% →
ATONE 4.96 bits
3.9% →
ALONE 5.32 bits
3.8% →
GLACE 4.22 bits
3.2% →
STOAE 4.93 bits
3.1% →
COATE 4.83 bits
3.0% →
OLATE 4.64 bits
2.1% →
SLANT 4.48 bits

Research on RURPS

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

Optimal play

Opening with RURPS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,842 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.92 guesses at best and is rank #4,688 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.77, at or below the proven-optimal 3.80, 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).