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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

RANCH

Yes, RANCH was the Wordle answer on June 17, 2023 (Wordle #728).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɹɑːnt͡ʃ//ˈɹænt͡ʃ/[ˈɹʷænt͡ʃ]

Noun

A large plot of land used for raising cattle, sheep or other livestock.

Noun

A small farm that cultivates vegetables or livestock, especially one in the Southwestern United States.

Verb

To operate a ranch; to engage in ranching.

“Formally the widow still ranches, but in fact she leaves all ranching to the foreman.”

Verb

To work on a ranch.

“Bill had ranched only five years when his dad made him foreman.”

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: June 17, 2023 (#728).

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

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How RANCH performs as a guess

RANCH is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 83.1% of games, misses completely in 16.9%, and leaves about 150 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #667 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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.

Useful pattern pages

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

R___H R in the 1st position and H in the 5th position R__C_ R in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _A__H A in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE TOISE ALATE TRADE STILE SLIDE
Words starting with R Words ending with H

First-turn measures

4.96 Entropy (bits)
150 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 81% of evaluated openers
0.99 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How RANCH 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#667 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, RANCH ranks #667 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
1,038
4 guesses
1,079
5 guesses
169
6 guesses
10
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ANR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
29%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C H I L D
R A N C H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches RANCH in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

107 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

399
265
198
150
125
105
70
61
57
54
50
48
45
44
33
32
31
30
29
26
25
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23
17
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14
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RANCH:

17% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
11% chance
Suggested:
TOISE
8% chance
Suggested:
ALATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.9% →
TOILE 6.09 bits
11.2% →
TOISE 5.52 bits
8.4% →
ALATE 5.54 bits
6.4% →
TOILE 5.40 bits
5.3% →
TRADE 4.76 bits
4.5% →
STILE 4.69 bits
3.0% →
TOISE 5.31 bits
2.6% →
SLIDE 4.64 bits
2.4% →
TUILE 4.82 bits
2.3% →
TRIDE 4.31 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1A1N1C3H4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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