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TAUPE

Yes, TAUPE was the Wordle answer on June 20, 2025 (Wordle #1462).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /təʊp//toʊp/

Noun

A dark brownish-grey colour, the colour of moleskin.

Adjective

Of a dark brownish-grey colour.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: June 20, 2025 (#1462).

See the full page for that puzzle: June 20, 2025 (#1462).

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

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How TAUPE performs as a guess

TAUPE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 89.2% of games, misses completely in 10.8%, and leaves about 105 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,487 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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___E T in the 1st position and E in the 5th position T__P_ T in the 1st position and P in the 4th position _A__E A in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TAUPE 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.

5.29 Entropy (bits)
105 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 95% of evaluated openers
0.66 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TAUPE 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#2,487 Rank among openers
Opening with TAUPE left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It ranks #2,487 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
83
3 guesses
934
4 guesses
1,121
5 guesses
195
6 guesses
17
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
3 vowels
Common:
AETU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
39%
All gray
11%

Example solver route

R O A T E
B A T H E
T A U P E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches TAUPE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

TAUPE can come back 116 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

257 answers
233 answers
190 answers
129 answers
115 answers
106 answers
96 answers
80 answers
79 answers
73 answers
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44 answers
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18 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1A1U1P3E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

CRONY LINER SNARL NOIRE SONLY SHORT

Strategy after playing TAUPE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TAUPE:

11% chance
Suggested:
CRONY
10% chance
Suggested:
LINER
8% chance
Suggested:
SNARL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

10.8% →
CRONY 5.56 bits
9.8% →
LINER 5.10 bits
8.0% →
SNARL 5.05 bits
5.4% →
NOIRE 4.53 bits
4.8% →
SONLY 4.46 bits
4.5% →
SHORT 5.02 bits
4.0% →
SURLY 4.40 bits
3.4% →
RELAY 4.69 bits
3.3% →
RESET 4.90 bits
3.1% →
SLART 3.92 bits

Research on TAUPE

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

Optimal play

Opening with TAUPE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #1,017 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 TAUPE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.63, 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

One syllable Say it TAWP. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, TAUPE is a kind of brown.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TAUPE 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); 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).