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

RAKSI

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A traditional distilled alcoholic beverage in Nepal and Tibet, usually homemade from kodo millet or rice.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use RAKSI in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 94.0% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How RAKSI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RAKSI 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 86.3% of games, misses completely in 13.7%, and leaves about 143 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,650 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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 RAKSI 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.

4.75 Entropy (bits)
143 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.0% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RAKSI 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#6,650 Rank among openers
Opening with RAKSI left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.70 average. It ranks #6,650 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
860
4 guesses
1,213
5 guesses
212
6 guesses
17

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIRS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
24%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

RAKSI can come back 82 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

327 answers
248 answers
231 answers
179 answers
132 answers
124 answers
116 answers
103 answers
68 answers
60 answers
55 answers
54 answers
54 answers
47 answers
36 answers
34 answers
33 answers
30 answers
28 answers
28 answers
28 answers
26 answers
25 answers
22 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1A1K5S1I1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing RAKSI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RAKSI:

14% chance
Suggested:
CLOTE
10% chance
Suggested:
TILDE
10% chance
Suggested:
TONEY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.7% →
CLOTE 5.65 bits
10.4% →
TILDE 5.28 bits
9.7% →
TONEY 5.16 bits
7.5% →
ALATE 5.44 bits
5.5% →
CONTE 4.69 bits
5.2% →
TRODE 4.69 bits
4.9% →
SPENT 5.14 bits
4.3% →
TRIED 4.55 bits
2.9% →
STILE 4.40 bits
2.5% →
PLATE 4.58 bits

Research on RAKSI

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

Optimal play

Opening with RAKSI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,774 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.84 guesses at best and is rank #2,619 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.70, at or below the proven-optimal 3.71, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).