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TEPEE

TEPEE is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 86.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of teepee.

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

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 TEPEE performs as a guess

TEPEE 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 68.4% of games, misses completely in 31.6%, and leaves about 321 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,278 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.86 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___E T in the 1st position and E in the 5th position T__E_ T in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _E__E E in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TEPEE 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.

3.95 Entropy (bits)
321 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
86.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 20% of evaluated openers
2.00 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TEPEE 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.

3.86 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#13,278 Rank among openers
Opening with TEPEE left 2 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 3.86 average. It ranks #13,278 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
655
4 guesses
1,284
5 guesses
347
6 guesses
26
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

3/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
ET

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
44%
All gray
32%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S H I L Y
E T U D E
T E P E E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches TEPEE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

TEPEE can come back 67 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

749 answers
269 answers
229 answers
159 answers
123 answers
98 answers
80 answers
68 answers
51 answers
44 answers
42 answers
40 answers
39 answers
34 answers
32 answers
25 answers
24 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
7 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1E1P3E1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

SALON SAINT SORAL SOLAR SOILY LAIRY

Strategy after playing TEPEE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TEPEE:

32% chance
Suggested:
SALON
11% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
10% chance
Suggested:
SORAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.6% →
SALON 5.75 bits
11.3% →
SAINT 5.34 bits
9.6% →
SORAL 4.83 bits
6.7% →
SOLAR 4.57 bits
5.2% →
SOILY 4.89 bits
4.1% →
LAIRY 4.63 bits
3.4% →
SONAR 4.66 bits
2.9% →
SORAL 4.49 bits
2.1% →
STAIR 4.04 bits
1.9% →
SONAR 4.26 bits

Research on TEPEE

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

Optimal play

Opening with TEPEE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.84 guesses and ranks #12,444 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 TEPEE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.86; proven optimal play reaches 3.84. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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 TEEPEE. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, TEPEE is a kind of lodge.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TEPEE 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.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.1 of 5).

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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).