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

RYPIN

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

No dictionary definition for RYPIN is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 91.6% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 RYPIN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RYPIN 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 79.7% of games, misses completely in 20.3%, and leaves about 200 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,977 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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 RYPIN 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.

4.53 Entropy (bits)
200 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 53% of evaluated openers
1.42 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RYPIN 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#2,977 Rank among openers
Opening with RYPIN 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 3.64 average. It ranks #2,977 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
971
4 guesses
1,123
5 guesses
196
6 guesses
12
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
1 vowels
Common:
INR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
18%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

RYPIN can come back 89 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

481 answers
357 answers
155 answers
154 answers
152 answers
87 answers
82 answers
73 answers
65 answers
57 answers
55 answers
50 answers
44 answers
44 answers
40 answers
38 answers
25 answers
25 answers
24 answers
21 answers
19 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1Y4P3I1N1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing RYPIN

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RYPIN:

20% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
15% chance
Suggested:
COATE
7% chance
Suggested:
SLADE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.3%
SLATE 6.47 bits
15.0%
COATE 5.64 bits
6.5%
SLADE 4.93 bits
6.5%
STILE 5.38 bits
6.4%
COATE 5.40 bits
3.7%
SLATE 5.59 bits
3.5%
STILE 4.54 bits
3.1%
STAGE 4.59 bits
2.7%
CADET 4.84 bits
2.4%
SOUCE 4.93 bits

Research on RYPIN

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

Optimal play

Opening with RYPIN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #5,134 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.83 guesses at best and is rank #2,160 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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 RIHPIHN. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.