RAISE
Yes, RAISE was the Wordle answer on April 19, 2024 (Wordle #1035).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ɹeɪz/
- Verb
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To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
“to raise your hand if you want to say something; to raise your walking stick to defend yourself”
- Verb
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To create, increase or develop.
“We need to raise the motivation level in the company.”
- Noun
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Ellipsis of pay raise (“an increase in wages or salary”).
“The boss gave me a raise.”
- Noun
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A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English reysen, raisen, reisen, from Old Norse reisa (“to raise”), from Proto-Germanic *raisijaną, *raizijaną (“to raise”), causative form of Proto-Germanic *rīsaną (“to rise”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rey- (“to rise, arise”). According to Kroonen (2013), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to stir, rise”).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it RAYZ.
Rhymes with PLAYS PHASE STAYS BLAZE CRAZE
Related meanings by dictionary sense
noun
the amount a salary is increased
he got a 3% raise
Synonyms for this sense: rise, hike.
noun
an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
Synonyms for this sense: rise, upgrade, climb, ascent.
noun
increasing the size of a bet (as in poker)
I'll see your raise and double it
noun
the act of raising something
Synonyms for this sense: lift.
verb
raise the level or amount of something
raise my salary
raise the price of bread
verb
raise from a lower to a higher position
Raise your hands
Synonyms for this sense: lift, elevate.
Opposites for this sense: lower.
verb
cause to be heard or known; express or utter
raise a shout
raise a protest
raise a sad cry
verb
collect funds for a specific purpose
verb
cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques
We raise hogs here
Synonyms for this sense: grow, produce, farm.
verb
look after a child until it is an adult
raise a family
Synonyms for this sense: parent, rear, nurture.
verb
summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
raise the specter of unemployment
Synonyms for this sense: stir, invoke, evoke, conjure.
verb
move upwards
Synonyms for this sense: lift.
verb
construct, build, or erect
Raise a barn
Synonyms for this sense: rear, erect.
Opposites for this sense: level.
verb
call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
raise a smile
Synonyms for this sense: fire, kindle, provoke, evoke, elicit.
verb
create a disturbance, especially by making a great noise
raise hell
raise the roof
raise Cain
verb
raise in rank or condition
Synonyms for this sense: lift, elevate.
verb
increase the level of
Synonyms for this sense: enhance.
verb
give a promotion to or assign to a higher position
Synonyms for this sense: advance, promote, upgrade, elevate.
verb
cause to puff up with a leaven
Synonyms for this sense: prove.
verb
bid (one's partner's suit) at a higher level
verb
bet more than the previous player
verb
cause to assemble or enlist in military
raise an army
Synonyms for this sense: recruit, levy.
verb
put forward for consideration or discussion
raise the question of promotions
verb
pronounce (vowels) by bringing the tongue closer to the roof of the mouth
raise your ‘o’
verb
activate or stir up
raise a mutiny
verb
establish radio communications with
They managed to raise Hanoi last night
verb
multiply (a number) by itself a specified number of times: 8 is 2 raised to the power 3
verb
bring (a surface or a design) into relief and cause to project
verb
invigorate or heighten
Synonyms for this sense: lift.
verb
put an end to a situation
raise a siege
Synonyms for this sense: lift.
verb
cause to become alive again
raise from the dead
Synonyms for this sense: resurrect.
verb
register formally as a participant or member
Synonyms for this sense: enter, recruit, enroll.
Open English WordNet, 2025 edition, CC BY 4.0. Source dictionary. Senses are kept separate; no puzzle appearance is assigned to a meaning without evidence.
In a sentence
Will we get a raise?
I just got a raise.
Use RAISE in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 97.4% of possible answers.
Wordle status
Answer chance: very unlikely. Roughly 0.21% within a year (about 1 in 476), under the model through 2026-11-05. This is an estimate, not a publisher forecast. How this is calculated.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Earlier benchmark pool
YesMembership in the preserved uniform benchmark; it is not a future eligibility rule.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: April 19, 2024 (#1035).
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Reported player results
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See what the public sample says →RAISE in Connections
4 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #820
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RAISE appeared in INCREASE, WITH "UP" (green group).
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· Puzzle #779
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RAISE appeared in POKER ACTIONS (blue group).
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· Puzzle #534
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RAISE appeared in GOOD THINGS TO GET AT WORK (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #289
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RAISE appeared in BRING UP (blue group).
How RAISE performs as a guess
RAISE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,392 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 92.7% of games, misses completely in 7.3%, and leaves about 63 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,112 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.
Useful pattern pages
If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.
First-turn measures
All four describe RAISE 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How RAISE 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
When RAISE is useful later
RAISE tied for the smallest expected survivor count in 2 of 56 sampled positions where it was legal. This designed sample is not a measure of how often real players should use it.
After AUDIO: 3 candidates, normal mode
AUDIO: 11200 (0 = grey, 1 = yellow, 2 = green).
Remaining answers: LADDU, SADHU, UNDAM.
With a budget of 5 more guesses, RAISE is an information probe, outside this survivor list. It leaves 1.00 candidates on average under the model. Every feedback identifies a single candidate; another turn may be needed to submit it.
Try this position in the SolverAfter ROATE: 3 candidates, normal mode
ROATE: 10101 (0 = grey, 1 = yellow, 2 = green).
AWNER: 10011 (0 = grey, 1 = yellow, 2 = green).
ZEBRA: 01012 (0 = grey, 1 = yellow, 2 = green).
Remaining answers: CREMA, ERICA, PRESA.
With a budget of 3 more guesses, RAISE is an information probe, outside this survivor list. It leaves 1.00 candidates on average under the model. Every feedback identifies a single candidate; another turn may be needed to submit it.
Try this position in the SolverSample and method
Every saved board is reachable within a six-turn game. Remaining turns equal six minus the saved history length. The sampling policy is independent of the expected-survivor metric. Two states at each of three depths per opener were selected by a fixed hash from an independent candidate-only sampling policy. Every accepted guess was evaluated. Model answer-model-2026-11-05-9183a914c959, data through 2026-11-05. The score measures expected survivors, not proved solve length or human difficulty.
How the solver finds RAISE
The strategy receives only earlier guesses and their feedback. It does not know the answer before choosing a move. Guessing the answer itself on turn one is a lucky one-turn result, not a recommended general strategy.
Normal mode
Our solver: bounded weighted policy. Current-pool replay over 14,855 accepted words. Model through 2026-11-05.
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The fixed opener tests its five letters.
14,855 before → 4 after. This feedback leaves 4 candidates.
All 4 surviving candidates
RAISE, RAMSE, RANSE, RASSE
Decision measures before feedback
Expected remaining candidates: 414.45. Information: 5.74 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.
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Test RAISE against the 4 candidates consistent with the earlier rows.
4 before → 1 after. The answer is submitted and solved.
All 1 surviving candidates
RAISE
Decision measures before feedback
Expected remaining candidates: 1.806. Information: 0.973 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.
Solved in 2 guesses. Uniquely identified on turn 2.
Continue this board in the SolverHard Mode
Our solver: bounded weighted policy. Current-pool replay over 14,855 accepted words. Model through 2026-11-05.
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The fixed opener tests its five letters.
14,855 before → 4 after. This feedback leaves 4 candidates.
All 4 surviving candidates
RAISE, RAMSE, RANSE, RASSE
Decision measures before feedback
Expected remaining candidates: 414.45. Information: 5.74 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.
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Test RAISE against the 4 candidates consistent with the earlier rows.
4 before → 1 after. The answer is submitted and solved.
All 1 surviving candidates
RAISE
Decision measures before feedback
Expected remaining candidates: 1.806. Information: 0.973 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.
Solved in 2 guesses. Uniquely identified on turn 2.
Continue this board in the SolverHistorical proven-optimal benchmark: July 2023
Alex Selby’s strategy minimises the mean over its complete 3,158-answer snapshot. A route for one answer is not proof of the shortest possible route for that answer, and is separate from the current weighted model.
Normal mode
Selby’s proven-optimal strategy. July 2023 snapshot: 3,158 equally likely answers; minimum mean guesses.
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The fixed opener tests its five letters.
3,158 before → 1 after. This feedback leaves 1 candidate.
All 1 surviving candidates
RAISE
Decision measures before feedback
Expected remaining candidates: 100.074. Information: 5.888 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.
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Submit the only remaining candidate.
1 before → 1 after. The answer is submitted and solved.
All 1 surviving candidates
RAISE
Decision measures before feedback
Expected remaining candidates: 1.0. Information: 0.0 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.
Solved in 2 guesses. Uniquely identified on turn 1.
Continue this board in the SolverHard Mode
Selby’s proven-optimal strategy. July 2023 snapshot: 3,158 equally likely answers; minimum mean guesses.
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The fixed opener tests its five letters.
3,158 before → 1 after. This feedback leaves 1 candidate.
All 1 surviving candidates
RAISE
Decision measures before feedback
Expected remaining candidates: 100.074. Information: 5.888 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.
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Submit the only remaining candidate.
1 before → 1 after. The answer is submitted and solved.
All 1 surviving candidates
RAISE
Decision measures before feedback
Expected remaining candidates: 1.0. Information: 0.0 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.
Solved in 2 guesses. Uniquely identified on turn 1.
Continue this board in the SolverSource: Alex Selby’s Wordle analysis, MIT. Licence and attribution.
How the fixed opener panel performs on this answer
| Opener | First feedback | Survivors | Normal | Hard Mode |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TARSE | 02122 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green) | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| CRANE | 01102 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green) | 81 | 4 | 3 |
| SLATE | 10102 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green) | 35 | 3 | 3 |
| ADIEU | 10210 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green) | 29 | 3 | 4 |
| STARE | 10112 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green) | 11 | 4 | 3 |
| AUDIO | 10010 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green) | 496 | 3 | 3 |
| RAISE | 22222 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green) | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| ROATE | 20102 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green) | 28 | 3 | 3 |
| SALET | 12010 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green) | 26 | 3 | 3 |
- Normal mode
- 1 guess: 1 · 2 guesses: 1 · 3 guesses: 5 · 4 guesses: 2 · 5 guesses: 0 · 6 guesses: 0 · Failed in six: 0
- Hard Mode
- 1 guess: 1 · 2 guesses: 1 · 3 guesses: 6 · 4 guesses: 1 · 5 guesses: 0 · 6 guesses: 0 · Failed in six: 0
The nine openers use the same pool and continuation policy. Across both modes: 1–4 guesses among successes; 0 of 18 configurations failed. This is performance on this answer, not an overall opener ranking.
142 openers set up a two-turn opportunity; examples include RATES, PARIS, ASIDE, RACES, RISKS, READS, PAIRS, RISES, RUINS, WRIST. After their feedback, this answer is among the most likely survivors with at least half the model probability. This is an opportunity, not a guarantee. An opener that immediately solves is excluded.
Why this answer can be difficult
The worked board still allows 4 different answers at one later decision: RAISE, RAMSE, RANSE, RASSE. These are mechanical alternatives, not a judgement of vocabulary difficulty.
Vocabulary evidence and voluntary player results are reported separately from these solver observations.
Closest competing answers in this board
These words all fit the earlier feedback, rather than merely sharing similar spelling: RAISE, RAMSE, RANSE, RASSE.
A lesson from this route
Before RAISE, 4 words still fit. Its feedback left 1; check the full survivor list before choosing the next answer.
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How this is calculated
The current policy checks all remaining candidates and up to 128 fixed probes. At six or fewer candidates it uses bounded lookahead, preferring modelled six-turn success, then speed among successes. Larger states use expected survivors as a heuristic. These are recommendations, not proofs of optimal play. Hard Mode retains green positions and revealed letter counts; it allows grey letters and a yellow in the same position. Candidate-only play is stricter.
Feedback distribution
RAISE can come back 132 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for RAISE; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
Try next
Strategy after playing RAISE
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to RAISE.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing RAISE:
Research on RAISE
Game-tree analysis and word research for RAISE, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with RAISE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.60 guesses and ranks #184 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 RAISE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.60, at or below the proven-optimal 3.60, 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
- RAISE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 56 times per million words in the source corpus. Corpus frequency does not measure every reader’s familiarity.
- Learner level
- Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A2); among the first words English learners study.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 7, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 51 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (2.8 of 5).
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).