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Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

TULPA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈtʌlpə//ˈtuːlpə/

Noun

A magical creature that attains corporeal reality, having been originally merely imaginary.

Noun

A type of thought-form regarded as capable of independent action, with a persistent personality and identity; a kind of modern imaginary friend.

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 TULPA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TULPA 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 82.4% of games, misses completely in 17.6%, and leaves about 168 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,632 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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___A T in the 1st position and A in the 5th position T__P_ T in the 1st position and P in the 4th position _U__A U in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TULPA 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.

4.74 Entropy (bits)
168 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 68% of evaluated openers
1.21 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TULPA 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#1,632 Rank among openers
Opening with TULPA left 1 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 3.61 average. It ranks #1,632 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
63
3 guesses
1,003
4 guesses
1,085
5 guesses
187
6 guesses
15
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:
ALTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
22%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

TULPA can come back 99 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

419 answers
308 answers
164 answers
157 answers
145 answers
116 answers
88 answers
83 answers
78 answers
60 answers
47 answers
43 answers
42 answers
37 answers
36 answers
34 answers
31 answers
28 answers
28 answers
27 answers
22 answers
22 answers
22 answers
19 answers
18 answers
16 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1U1L1P3A1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

NOIRE CRANE SHOER SLIER CARSE CRISE

Strategy after playing TULPA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TULPA:

18% chance
Suggested:
NOIRE
13% chance
Suggested:
CRANE
7% chance
Suggested:
SHOER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.6% →
NOIRE 6.06 bits
13.0% →
CRANE 5.49 bits
6.9% →
SHOER 5.50 bits
6.6% →
SLIER 4.90 bits
6.1% →
CRANE 4.71 bits
4.9% →
CARSE 5.14 bits
3.7% →
CRISE 5.43 bits
3.5% →
SNORE 5.26 bits
3.3% →
SIREN 4.24 bits
2.5% →
SHINE 4.85 bits

Research on TULPA

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

Optimal play

Opening with TULPA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #2,878 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.76 guesses at best and is rank #549 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.61, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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 TOOLPUH. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TULPA 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 frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).