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

SCAPI

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of scapus

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

Use SCAPI in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 92.6% 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 SCAPI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SCAPI 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 82.0% of games, misses completely in 18.0%, and leaves about 176 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,967 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 SCAPI 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.

4.67 Entropy (bits)
176 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SCAPI 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#2,967 Rank among openers
Opening with SCAPI left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.64 average. It ranks #2,967 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
951
4 guesses
1,161
5 guesses
170
6 guesses
17

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
28%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

SCAPI can come back 90 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

430 answers
293 answers
266 answers
121 answers
101 answers
101 answers
86 answers
68 answers
67 answers
62 answers
56 answers
55 answers
47 answers
40 answers
40 answers
37 answers
36 answers
36 answers
34 answers
33 answers
25 answers
22 answers
20 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1C3A1P3I1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing SCAPI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SCAPI:

18% chance
Suggested:
TONER
12% chance
Suggested:
TALER
11% chance
Suggested:
TILDE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.0% →
TONER 6.00 bits
12.3% →
TALER 5.61 bits
11.2% →
TILDE 5.40 bits
5.1% →
CRONE 5.32 bits
4.2% →
DROLE 5.03 bits
4.2% →
TONER 5.05 bits
3.6% →
ROUTE 5.32 bits
2.9% →
CRINE 4.32 bits
2.8% →
COREY 4.61 bits
2.6% →
RAILE 4.45 bits

Research on SCAPI

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

Optimal play

Opening with SCAPI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,654 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.80 guesses at best and is rank #1,435 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.

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