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TAPIR

Yes, TAPIR was the Wordle answer on December 29, 2021 (Wordle #193).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈteɪpiːə(ɹ)//ˈteɪpɪə(ɹ)//ˈteɪpə(ɹ)/

Noun

An odd-toed ungulate of the genus Tapirus with a long prehensile upper lip.

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

Etymology

Borrowed from French tapir, from Old Tupi tapi'ira.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

In a sentence

A tapir is a mammal with prehensile lips for eating tree foliage.
© tatoeba.org contributor Eccles17 (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use TAPIR in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 95.3% of possible answers.

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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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: December 29, 2021 (#193).

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

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How TAPIR performs as a guess

TAPIR is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 86.6% of games, misses completely in 13.4%, and leaves about 111 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #63 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.55 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.

T___R T in the 1st position and R in the 5th position T__I_ T in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _A__R A in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TAPIR 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.

5.30 Entropy (bits)
111 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TAPIR 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.

3.55 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#63 Rank among openers
Opening with TAPIR left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.55 average. It ranks #63 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
82
3 guesses
1,065
4 guesses
1,047
5 guesses
145
6 guesses
11

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIRT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
32%
All gray
13%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S P I A L
T A P I R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches TAPIR in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

TAPIR can come back 127 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

320 answers
180 answers
164 answers
156 answers
116 answers
109 answers
107 answers
78 answers
71 answers
70 answers
67 answers
51 answers
50 answers
41 answers
38 answers
34 answers
32 answers
32 answers
30 answers
28 answers
28 answers
26 answers
26 answers
24 answers
24 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1A1P3I1R1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

SOLDE SLANE CLINE SONCE BRACE SHULE

Strategy after playing TAPIR

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TAPIR:

13% chance
Suggested:
SOLDE
8% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
7% chance
Suggested:
CLINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.4% →
SOLDE 5.85 bits
7.6% →
SLANE 5.43 bits
6.9% →
CLINE 5.15 bits
6.5% →
SONCE 5.28 bits
4.9% →
BRACE 4.67 bits
4.6% →
SHULE 5.20 bits
4.5% →
SONLY 4.54 bits
3.3% →
LEAST 4.96 bits
3.0% →
SOLED 3.94 bits
2.9% →
HEIST 4.42 bits

Research on TAPIR

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

Optimal play

Opening with TAPIR, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.61 guesses and ranks #286 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 TAPIR can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.55, at or below the proven-optimal 3.61, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TAPIR sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).