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TROPE

Yes, TROPE was the Wordle answer on April 2, 2022 (Wordle #287).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /tɹəʊp/[tɹ̥əʊp]/tɹoʊp/

Noun

Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature; a motif.

Noun

An addition (of dialogue, song, music, etc.) to a standard element of the liturgy, serving as an embellishment.

Verb

To use, or embellish something with, a trope.

Verb

Senses relating chiefly to art or literature.

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

Etymology

From Latin tropus, from Ancient Greek τρόπος (trópos, “a manner, style, turn, way; a trope or figure of speech; a mode in music; a mode or mood in logic”), related to τροπή (tropḗ, “solstice; trope; turn”) and τρέπειν (trépein, “to turn”); compare turn of phrase. The verb is derived from the noun.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Related meanings

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In a sentence

Airships are a common trope in steampunk works.
© tatoeba.org contributor sabretou (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use TROPE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 95.8% 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: April 2, 2022 (#287).

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TROPE in Connections

1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How TROPE performs as a guess

TROPE 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 87.0% of games, misses completely in 13.0%, and leaves about 100 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #237 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.57 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 _R__E R in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position TR_PE T in the 1st position, R in the 2nd position, P in the 4th position, and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TROPE 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.

5.43 Entropy (bits)
100 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TROPE 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.

3.57 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#237 Rank among openers
Opening with TROPE left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.57 average. It ranks #237 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
87
3 guesses
1,016
4 guesses
1,076
5 guesses
162
6 guesses
10

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EORT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
38%
All gray
13%

Example solver route

R O A T E
T R O P E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches TROPE in 2 guesses.

Feedback distribution

TROPE can come back 123 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

310 answers
148 answers
146 answers
133 answers
128 answers
126 answers
89 answers
82 answers
64 answers
64 answers
55 answers
53 answers
40 answers
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31 answers
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19 answers
19 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1R1O1P3E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

SLAIN SADLY LADEN RENAL SAINT SONLY

Strategy after playing TROPE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TROPE:

13% chance
Suggested:
SLAIN
6% chance
Suggested:
SADLY
6% chance
Suggested:
LADEN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.0% →
SLAIN 5.92 bits
6.2% →
SADLY 4.66 bits
6.1% →
LADEN 5.18 bits
5.6% →
RENAL 4.35 bits
5.4% →
SAINT 5.30 bits
5.3% →
SONLY 4.72 bits
3.7% →
CARRY 4.83 bits
3.4% →
SLANT 4.89 bits
2.7% →
PLAIN 5.05 bits
2.7% →
CAROM 4.31 bits

Research on TROPE

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

Optimal play

Opening with TROPE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.60 guesses and ranks #110 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.71 guesses at best and is rank #44 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.57, at or below the proven-optimal 3.60, 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
TROPE sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).