5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

RAFTY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

damp; musty

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 RAFTY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RAFTY 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 82.4% of games, misses completely in 17.6%, and leaves about 167 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,638 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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___Y R in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position R__T_ R in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _A__Y A in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

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NOISE POISE SLANE SIENT SOLDE CRANE
Words starting with R Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

4.70 Entropy (bits)
167 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 65% of evaluated openers
1.25 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How RAFTY 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#4,638 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, RAFTY ranks #4,638 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
883
4 guesses
1,216
5 guesses
191
6 guesses
7
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
1 vowels
Common:
ART

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
32%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

98 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

414
254
220
180
134
131
92
90
86
40
40
39
39
38
37
37
35
32
24
23
19
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18
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16
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12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RAFTY:

18% chance
Suggested:
NOISE
11% chance
Suggested:
POISE
9% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.6% →
NOISE 6.04 bits
10.8% →
POISE 5.47 bits
9.3% →
SLANE 5.60 bits
7.6% →
SIENT 5.47 bits
5.7% →
SOLDE 4.71 bits
5.6% →
CRANE 4.64 bits
3.9% →
TOUSE 4.90 bits
3.8% →
CLINE 4.65 bits
3.6% →
LEAST 4.91 bits
1.7% →
CLINE 4.71 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1A1F4T1Y4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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