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TAPIS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈtapɪs//taˈpiː/

Noun

A tapestry.

Noun

Carpeting.

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

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 TAPIS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TAPIS 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 82.9% of games, misses completely in 17.1%, and leaves about 143 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #505 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 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.
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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

T___S T in the 1st position and S in the 5th position T__I_ T in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TAPIS 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.

5.00 Entropy (bits)
143 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 84% of evaluated openers
0.94 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TAPIS 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.

3.58 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#505 Rank among openers
Opening with TAPIS 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 3.58 average. It ranks #505 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
70
3 guesses
1,023
4 guesses
1,085
5 guesses
166
6 guesses
9
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
2 vowels
Common:
AIST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
27%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

TAPIS can come back 111 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

406 answers
233 answers
183 answers
131 answers
122 answers
102 answers
74 answers
67 answers
64 answers
64 answers
61 answers
58 answers
45 answers
44 answers
44 answers
42 answers
37 answers
36 answers
30 answers
28 answers
27 answers
27 answers
24 answers
22 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1A1P3I1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

DROLE DINER MORNE SHOER ROUET SHULE

Strategy after playing TAPIS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TAPIS:

17% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
10% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
8% chance
Suggested:
DINER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.1% →
DROLE 5.98 bits
9.8% →
DROLE 5.50 bits
7.7% →
DINER 5.34 bits
5.5% →
MORNE 4.81 bits
5.1% →
SHOER 5.18 bits
4.3% →
ROUET 5.34 bits
3.1% →
SHULE 4.70 bits
2.8% →
ROUET 4.71 bits
2.7% →
PONEY 4.85 bits
2.7% →
ALERT 4.85 bits

Research on TAPIS

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

Optimal play

Opening with TAPIS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,681 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.74 guesses at best and is rank #254 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.58, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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 TAPUHS. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, TAPIS is a kind of material.

Synonyms tapestry

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TAPIS sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).