5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

RACON

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A beacon that, on detecting a radar signal, responds by transmitting a coded navigation signal.

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 RACON performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RACON 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 86.5% of games, misses completely in 13.5%, and leaves about 117 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #170 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.56 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.

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

R___N R in the 1st position and N in the 5th position R__O_ R in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _A__N A in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

STILE SLATE SUITE STOLE SEITY TRADE
Words starting with R Words ending with N

First-turn measures

5.17 Entropy (bits)
117 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 91% of evaluated openers
0.78 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How RACON 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.

3.56 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#170 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, RACON ranks #170 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
86
3 guesses
1,034
4 guesses
1,065
5 guesses
156
6 guesses
12
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ANOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
26%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

125 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

319
189
189
152
120
116
107
99
69
50
49
49
48
47
45
38
36
34
32
31
31
30
24
21
19
19
17
16
15
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RACON:

14% chance
Suggested:
STILE
8% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
8% chance
Suggested:
SUITE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.5% →
STILE 6.17 bits
8.0% →
SLATE 5.78 bits
8.0% →
SUITE 5.41 bits
6.4% →
STOLE 5.13 bits
5.1% →
SEITY 5.28 bits
4.9% →
TRADE 4.84 bits
4.5% →
STILE 4.78 bits
4.2% →
STOLE 4.58 bits
2.9% →
SLICE 4.86 bits
2.1% →
BOITE 4.30 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1A1C3O1N1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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