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

RADDI

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

No dictionary definition for RADDI is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 90.7% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 RADDI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RADDI 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 81.0% of games, misses completely in 19.0%, and leaves about 221 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,178 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

First-turn measures

All four describe RADDI 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.

4.15 Entropy (bits)
221 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 30% of evaluated openers
1.80 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RADDI 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#11,178 Rank among openers
Opening with RADDI left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.79 average. It ranks #11,178 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
739
4 guesses
1,231
5 guesses
309
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
22%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

RADDI can come back 75 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

450 answers
294 answers
280 answers
277 answers
164 answers
148 answers
110 answers
65 answers
57 answers
53 answers
47 answers
37 answers
34 answers
27 answers
27 answers
26 answers
23 answers
19 answers
19 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
13 answers
11 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1A1D2D2I1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing RADDI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RADDI:

19% chance
Suggested:
STOLE
12% chance
Suggested:
SIENT
12% chance
Suggested:
TOUSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.0%
STOLE 5.98 bits
12.4%
SIENT 5.40 bits
11.8%
TOUSE 5.61 bits
11.7%
SLATE 5.74 bits
6.9%
CLOTE 4.68 bits
6.2%
TRACE 4.75 bits
4.6%
SPITE 4.51 bits
2.7%
CLOTE 3.85 bits
2.4%
DONUT 4.64 bits
2.2%
ANVIL 4.59 bits

Research on RADDI

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

Optimal play

Opening with RADDI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses and ranks #10,420 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with RADDI can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.79, at or below the proven-optimal 3.79, 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 RADEE. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.