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

RASED

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of rase

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Related meanings

Synonyms LEVEL dismantle

Use RASED in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 96.1% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How RASED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RASED 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 88.7% of games, misses completely in 11.3%, and leaves about 92 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,192 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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 RASED 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.

5.43 Entropy (bits)
92 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
96.1% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RASED 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#1,192 Rank among openers
Opening with RASED left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.60 average. It ranks #1,192 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
83
3 guesses
944
4 guesses
1,158
5 guesses
154
6 guesses
12

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AERS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
33%
All gray
11%

Feedback distribution

RASED can come back 116 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

269 answers
156 answers
133 answers
129 answers
122 answers
96 answers
90 answers
82 answers
81 answers
80 answers
79 answers
71 answers
62 answers
51 answers
46 answers
45 answers
44 answers
39 answers
29 answers
29 answers
28 answers
27 answers
27 answers
25 answers
23 answers
21 answers
21 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1A1S1E1D2
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Strategy after playing RASED

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RASED:

11% chance
Suggested:
COUNT
7% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
6% chance
Suggested:
SPILT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.3% →
COUNT 5.74 bits
6.5% →
TOILE 5.22 bits
5.6% →
SPILT 4.91 bits
5.4% →
COURT 5.00 bits
5.1% →
PLAIT 4.86 bits
4.0% →
CONTE 4.13 bits
3.8% →
PLATE 4.72 bits
3.4% →
SLEPT 4.56 bits
3.4% →
TOILE 3.53 bits
3.4% →
PORTE 4.27 bits

Research on RASED

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

Optimal play

Opening with RASED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.61 guesses and ranks #278 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 RASED can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.60, at or below the proven-optimal 3.61, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0).