5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

RAHUI

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

In Māori and Polynesian culture, restriction of access to a place, as a form of taboo.

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 RAHUI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RAHUI 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 89.2% of games, misses completely in 10.8%, and leaves about 136 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,339 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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___I R in the 1st position and I in the 5th position R__U_ R in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _A__I A in the 2nd position and I in the 5th position

Try next

SOLED TOILE SLATE SONCE TRACE SONLY
Words starting with R Words ending with I

First-turn measures

4.69 Entropy (bits)
136 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.2% 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 RAHUI 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#8,339 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, RAHUI ranks #8,339 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
850
4 guesses
1,176
5 guesses
258
6 guesses
22
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
3 vowels
Common:
AIRU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
20%
All gray
11%

Feedback distribution

78 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

254
245
229
193
147
135
133
115
77
67
61
59
58
56
46
42
37
29
28
27
24
21
20
20
19
18
18
13
12
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RAHUI:

11% chance
Suggested:
SOLED
10% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
10% chance
Suggested:
SLATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

10.8% →
SOLED 5.54 bits
10.4% →
TOILE 5.24 bits
9.7% →
SLATE 5.53 bits
8.2% →
SONCE 5.04 bits
6.2% →
TRACE 4.73 bits
5.7% →
SONLY 4.58 bits
5.6% →
SLOPE 4.68 bits
4.9% →
SPITE 4.42 bits
3.3% →
CONTE 5.09 bits
2.8% →
TOUSE 4.51 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1A1H4U1I1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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