5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

RANNS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of rann

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 RANNS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RANNS 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 82.3% of games, misses completely in 17.7%, and leaves about 175 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,616 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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___S R in the 1st position and S in the 5th position R__N_ R in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE STILE ALATE TRACE BLITE THALE
Words starting with R Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.52 Entropy (bits)
175 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 53% of evaluated openers
1.43 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How RANNS 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#8,616 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, RANNS ranks #8,616 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
31
3 guesses
844
4 guesses
1,221
5 guesses
238
6 guesses
19
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ANRS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
29%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

72 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

418
290
203
190
138
110
99
84
78
61
59
53
45
40
36
31
31
29
28
28
24
22
17
17
17
15
14
13
11
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RANNS:

18% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
12% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
9% chance
Suggested:
STILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.7% →
TOILE 6.10 bits
12.3% →
TOILE 5.28 bits
8.6% →
STILE 5.48 bits
8.1% →
ALATE 5.46 bits
5.9% →
TRACE 4.87 bits
4.7% →
BLITE 4.60 bits
4.2% →
THALE 4.87 bits
3.6% →
SUITE 4.71 bits
3.3% →
TOILE 5.02 bits
2.6% →
PORTE 3.86 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1A1N1N1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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