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

RAITA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.8% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A condiment made from seasoned yogurt used as a dip or sauce in the cuisine of southern Asia.

Noun

A Hindu who does not support Hindutva, a liberal Hindu, especially (highly derogatory) as considered a traitor to India or race traitor towards Indians.

Alternative forms: rayta

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 RAITA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RAITA 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 83.6% of games, misses completely in 16.4%, and leaves about 146 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,807 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe RAITA 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.

4.84 Entropy (bits)
146 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 74% of evaluated openers
1.11 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RAITA 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#5,807 Rank among openers
Opening with RAITA left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.68 average. It ranks #5,807 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
910
4 guesses
1,132
5 guesses
237
6 guesses
18
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
3 vowels
Common:
AIRT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
33%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

RAITA can come back 93 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

390 answers
239 answers
185 answers
139 answers
124 answers
115 answers
103 answers
100 answers
81 answers
78 answers
61 answers
55 answers
49 answers
47 answers
40 answers
40 answers
38 answers
33 answers
32 answers
27 answers
21 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1A1I1T1A1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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

Strategy after playing RAITA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RAITA:

16% chance
Suggested:
CLOSE
10% chance
Suggested:
SOUCE
8% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.4%
CLOSE 5.92 bits
10.1%
SOUCE 5.34 bits
7.8%
SLANE 5.42 bits
5.9%
SIDLE 4.92 bits
5.2%
CRANE 4.63 bits
4.8%
ONSET 5.08 bits
4.3%
CLONE 4.97 bits
4.2%
SOCLE 4.70 bits
3.4%
LEAST 4.92 bits
3.3%
TOUSE 4.89 bits

Research on RAITA

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

Optimal play

Opening with RAITA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,242 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.85 guesses at best and is rank #2,864 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, at or below the proven-optimal 3.74, 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 RAYTUH. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, RAITA is a kind of dish.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
RAITA sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).