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

TUPLE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈtʊpəl//ˈt͡ʃuːpəl//ˈtjuːpəl/

Noun

A finite sequence of terms.

Noun

A single row in a relational database.

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 TUPLE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TUPLE 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 85.0% of games, misses completely in 15.0%, and leaves about 130 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,984 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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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__L_ T in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _U__E U in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TUPLE 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.

5.10 Entropy (bits)
130 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 88% of evaluated openers
0.85 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TUPLE 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#1,984 Rank among openers
Opening with TUPLE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.62 average. It ranks #1,984 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
86
3 guesses
933
4 guesses
1,145
5 guesses
170
6 guesses
19
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:
ELTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
36%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

TUPLE can come back 118 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

355 answers
237 answers
163 answers
159 answers
149 answers
96 answers
94 answers
68 answers
67 answers
62 answers
58 answers
52 answers
44 answers
39 answers
38 answers
33 answers
30 answers
29 answers
29 answers
28 answers
27 answers
27 answers
27 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1U1P3L1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

CAIRN SONAR HOIST SHART RENAL SNARY

Strategy after playing TUPLE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TUPLE:

15% chance
Suggested:
CAIRN
10% chance
Suggested:
SONAR
7% chance
Suggested:
SONAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.0% →
CAIRN 6.11 bits
10.0% →
SONAR 5.14 bits
6.9% →
SONAR 4.97 bits
6.7% →
HOIST 5.33 bits
6.3% →
SONAR 5.22 bits
4.0% →
SHART 4.90 bits
4.0% →
RENAL 4.48 bits
2.9% →
SONAR 4.84 bits
2.8% →
SNARY 4.07 bits
2.6% →
SOUND 4.73 bits

Research on TUPLE

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

Optimal play

Opening with TUPLE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.62 guesses and ranks #561 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.75 guesses at best and is rank #300 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.62, 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 TUHPUHL. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

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