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RANGE

Yes, RANGE was the Wordle answer on May 1, 2023 (Wordle #681).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪnd͡ʒ//ˈɹɛjnd͡ʒ//ˈɾend͡ʒ/

Noun

A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.

Noun

A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many burners (hotplates).

Verb

To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander.

Verb

To rove over or through.

“to range the fields”

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: May 1, 2023 (#681).

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

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How RANGE performs as a guess

RANGE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 87.1% of games, misses completely in 12.9%, and leaves about 103 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,368 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

R___E R in the 1st position and E in the 5th position R__G_ R in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _A__E A in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe RANGE 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.

5.37 Entropy (bits)
103 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 96% of evaluated openers
0.58 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RANGE 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#2,368 Rank among openers
Opening with RANGE solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It ranks #2,368 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
79
3 guesses
943
4 guesses
1,120
5 guesses
198
6 guesses
13
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:
AENR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
37%
All gray
13%

Example solver route

R O A T E
R A I S E
R A N G E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches RANGE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

RANGE can come back 123 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

307 answers
153 answers
150 answers
147 answers
140 answers
97 answers
97 answers
88 answers
76 answers
66 answers
59 answers
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53 answers
38 answers
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18 answers
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Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1A1N1G2E1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

SOILY STALL COURT SLEET SOLED COAST

Strategy after playing RANGE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RANGE:

13% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
6% chance
Suggested:
STALL
6% chance
Suggested:
COURT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.9% →
SOILY 5.64 bits
6.4% →
STALL 5.00 bits
6.3% →
COURT 5.27 bits
6.2% →
SLEET 5.41 bits
5.9% →
SOLED 4.01 bits
4.1% →
SOILY 4.85 bits
4.1% →
COAST 4.58 bits
3.7% →
SALTY 4.32 bits
3.2% →
SNOUT 4.85 bits
2.8% →
DEALT 4.71 bits

Research on RANGE

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

Optimal play

Opening with RANGE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.62 guesses and ranks #593 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 RANGE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63; proven optimal play reaches 3.62. 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 RAYNJ.

Rhymes with MANGE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, RANGE is a kind of extent or limit.

Synonyms PLACE ORDER run rate IMAGE REACH

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
RANGE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 132 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A2); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 9, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 40 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.9 of 5).

In a sentence

That's not in my price range.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
It was out of my price range.
© tatoeba.org contributor CM (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).