Possible answer Not used yet F tier opener

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 86.4% of possible answers.

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 2,358 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 320 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 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.

First-turn measures

3.94 Entropy (bits)
320 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
86.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 20% of evaluated openers
2.01 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 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
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#13,278 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, TEPEE 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 (3.45 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

67 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

745
268
229
157
122
97
80
68
51
44
42
40
39
32
30
25
22
19
18
18
17
15
14
14
12
11
10
9
7
7

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
11.4%
SAINT 5.34 bits
9.7%
SORAL 4.83 bits
6.7%
SOLAR 4.57 bits
5.2%
SOILY 4.87 bits
4.1%
LAIRY 4.63 bits
3.4%
SONAR 4.66 bits
2.9%
SORAL 4.49 bits
2.2%
STAIR 4.04 bits
1.9%
SONAR 4.26 bits

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.