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

RALLI

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.0% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Proper noun

A surname.

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 RALLI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RALLI 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 85.2% of games, misses completely in 14.8%, and leaves about 167 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,164 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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 RALLI 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.

4.55 Entropy (bits)
167 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 55% of evaluated openers
1.40 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RALLI 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#9,164 Rank among openers
Opening with RALLI left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.74 average. It ranks #9,164 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
833
4 guesses
1,192
5 guesses
259
6 guesses
27
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
2 vowels
Common:
AILR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
26%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

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

351 answers
292 answers
254 answers
175 answers
155 answers
126 answers
117 answers
115 answers
97 answers
55 answers
54 answers
38 answers
38 answers
28 answers
26 answers
26 answers
26 answers
25 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
16 answers
16 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1A1L1L1I1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing RALLI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RALLI:

15% chance
Suggested:
STONE
12% chance
Suggested:
TOUSE
11% chance
Suggested:
SIENT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.8%
STONE 5.92 bits
12.3%
TOUSE 5.54 bits
10.7%
SIENT 5.43 bits
7.4%
STANE 5.41 bits
6.5%
TRACE 4.75 bits
5.3%
CONTE 4.75 bits
4.9%
SONCE 4.93 bits
4.8%
SPITE 4.55 bits
4.1%
SLATE 4.41 bits
2.3%
SMOTE 3.80 bits

Research on RALLI

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

Optimal play

Opening with RALLI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses and ranks #10,057 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 RALLI can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.74, at or below the proven-optimal 3.79, 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 RAWLEE. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
RALLI 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 frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).