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

WRAPS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.0% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of wrap

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of wrap

Adjective

Finished; hopeless.

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 WRAPS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WRAPS 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 79.8% of games, misses completely in 20.2%, and leaves about 189 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,156 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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

All four describe WRAPS 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.

4.60 Entropy (bits)
189 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 59% of evaluated openers
1.35 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How WRAPS 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.67 Spread of game lengths
#5,156 Rank among openers
Opening with WRAPS solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.67 means those games clustered within about 0.67 of a guess of the 3.67 average. It ranks #5,156 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
882
4 guesses
1,208
5 guesses
205
6 guesses
6
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
1 vowels
Common:
ARS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
27%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

WRAPS can come back 90 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

479 answers
272 answers
219 answers
190 answers
123 answers
97 answers
76 answers
69 answers
67 answers
63 answers
63 answers
52 answers
43 answers
35 answers
32 answers
29 answers
29 answers
27 answers
26 answers
20 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4R1A1P3S1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing WRAPS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WRAPS:

20% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
11% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
9% chance
Suggested:
ROUET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.2%
TOILE 6.13 bits
11.5%
TOILE 5.26 bits
9.2%
ROUET 5.21 bits
8.0%
TOILE 5.42 bits
5.2%
CARER 4.54 bits
4.1%
BOITE 4.79 bits
3.2%
CLOTE 4.58 bits
2.9%
STILE 4.46 bits
2.8%
CLOTE 4.94 bits
2.7%
SALET 4.61 bits

Research on WRAPS

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

Optimal play

Opening with WRAPS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,871 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.81 guesses at best and is rank #1,657 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.71, 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

One syllable Say it RAPS.

Rhymes with TRAPS SNAPS LAPSE FLAPS SLAPS

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, WRAPS is a kind of cloak or sandwich.

Synonyms wind roll wrapping wrapper

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
WRAPS sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 4 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.4 of 5).

In a sentence

That about wraps it up.
© tatoeba.org contributor CM (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I guess that about wraps it up.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); 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).