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

RAMES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of rame

Noun

plural of rame

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 RAMES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RAMES 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 88.3% of games, misses completely in 11.7%, and leaves about 100 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,171 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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.
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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

R___S R in the 1st position and S in the 5th position R__E_ R in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position RA_ES R in the 1st position, A in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in RAMES.

First-turn measures

All four describe RAMES 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.

5.29 Entropy (bits)
100 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 94% of evaluated openers
0.66 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RAMES 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#3,171 Rank among openers
Opening with RAMES left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.64 average. It ranks #3,171 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
75
3 guesses
908
4 guesses
1,172
5 guesses
183
6 guesses
14
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AERS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
31%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

RAMES can come back 109 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

277 answers
186 answers
137 answers
134 answers
121 answers
98 answers
96 answers
91 answers
91 answers
85 answers
81 answers
66 answers
59 answers
54 answers
43 answers
42 answers
37 answers
34 answers
25 answers
25 answers
24 answers
24 answers
24 answers
24 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1A1M3E1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

COUNT TOILE SPILT DROIT TONAL DEALT

Strategy after playing RAMES

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RAMES:

12% chance
Suggested:
COUNT
8% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
6% chance
Suggested:
SPILT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.7% →
COUNT 5.66 bits
7.8% →
TOILE 5.23 bits
5.8% →
SPILT 4.94 bits
5.6% →
DROIT 4.84 bits
5.1% →
TONAL 5.06 bits
4.1% →
TOILE 3.57 bits
4.0% →
DEALT 4.83 bits
3.8% →
TANGY 3.88 bits
3.8% →
TRAIN 4.34 bits
3.6% →
PORTE 4.26 bits

Research on RAMES

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

Optimal play

Opening with RAMES, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #876 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 RAMES can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.64; proven optimal play reaches 3.63. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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

One syllable Say it RAYMZ. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, RAMES is a kind of store or actor.

Synonyms FORCE DRIVE CRASH POUND jam cram

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
RAMES 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).