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

WRAPT

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Misspelling of rapt.

Verb

simple past and past participle of wrap

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

Etymology

From rapt, by overuse of ⟨wr⟩. Compare rack/wrack; see usage notes for rack.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use WRAPT in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.1% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How WRAPT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WRAPT 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 80.7% of games, misses completely in 19.3%, and leaves about 165 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,233 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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 WRAPT 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.

4.84 Entropy (bits)
165 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.1% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How WRAPT 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#1,233 Rank among openers
Opening with WRAPT solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.60 average. It ranks #1,233 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
72
3 guesses
975
4 guesses
1,127
5 guesses
172
6 guesses
8

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ART

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
34%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

WRAPT can come back 108 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

461 answers
230 answers
207 answers
137 answers
112 answers
100 answers
88 answers
87 answers
77 answers
71 answers
55 answers
39 answers
35 answers
34 answers
32 answers
31 answers
31 answers
30 answers
30 answers
28 answers
26 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4R1A1P3T1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing WRAPT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WRAPT:

19% chance
Suggested:
SLICE
10% chance
Suggested:
LANCE
9% chance
Suggested:
SOLED

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.3% →
SLICE 5.99 bits
9.6% →
LANCE 5.22 bits
8.7% →
SOLED 4.91 bits
5.7% →
HOISE 5.24 bits
4.7% →
CARER 4.59 bits
4.2% →
SLICE 5.15 bits
3.7% →
SHIEL 4.99 bits
3.6% →
SLICE 5.53 bits
3.2% →
SNIDE 4.62 bits
3.0% →
LATTE 4.64 bits

Research on WRAPT

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

Optimal play

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

In hard mode it averages 3.78 guesses at best and is rank #801 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.60, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
WRAPT 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); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).