RATIO
Yes, RATIO was the Wordle answer on April 4, 2023 (Wordle #654).
As an opener, it rules out about 96.1% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪ.ʃi.əʊ//ˈɹeɪ.ʃəʊ//ˈɹeɪ.si.əʊ/
- Noun
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A number representing a comparison between two named things.
- Noun
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The relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient).
- Verb
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To respond to a post or message on social media in a greater number than the number of likes the post receives, especially to condemn or mock the original poster.
“The politician's post was quickly ratioed due to its controversial nature.”
- Interjection
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Indicates disagreement with a post the user disagrees with or dislikes.
“L + ratio”
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Wordle status
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Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: April 4, 2023 (#654).
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RATIO 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 91.7% of games, misses completely in 8.3%, and leaves about 94 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,387 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe RATIO 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How RATIO 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches RATIO in 2 guesses.
Feedback distribution
RATIO can come back 124 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for RATIO; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing RATIO
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to RATIO.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing RATIO:
Research on RATIO
Game-tree analysis and word research for RATIO, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with RATIO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,664 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 RATIO can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.61, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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.
How it sounds
Three syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it RAYSHEEOH.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, RATIO is a kind of relation or abstraction.
Synonyms proportion
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- RATIO sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 23 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.3 of 5).
In a sentence
The Golden Ratio is found everywhere in nature.
The channel has low signal-to-noise ratio.
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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).