5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

RAVED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of rave

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 RAVED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RAVED 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 82.6% of games, misses completely in 17.4%, and leaves about 152 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,011 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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___D R in the 1st position and D in the 5th position R__E_ R in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__D A in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position RA_ED R in the 1st position, A in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and D in the 5th position

Try next

SOILY STILE SLANT COURT SONLY COAST
Words starting with R Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.87 Entropy (bits)
152 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 76% of evaluated openers
1.08 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How RAVED 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#6,011 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, RAVED ranks #6,011 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
65
3 guesses
858
4 guesses
1,191
5 guesses
227
6 guesses
11
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
2 vowels
Common:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
31%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

101 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

410
226
181
174
120
118
104
95
90
67
52
49
48
33
28
28
28
24
22
18
16
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13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RAVED:

17% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
10% chance
Suggested:
STILE
8% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.4% →
SOILY 5.69 bits
9.6% →
STILE 5.30 bits
7.7% →
SLANT 5.37 bits
7.4% →
COURT 5.21 bits
5.1% →
SONLY 4.49 bits
5.0% →
SLANT 5.13 bits
4.4% →
COAST 4.50 bits
4.0% →
TOISE 4.53 bits
3.8% →
TOISE 3.61 bits
2.8% →
SIENT 4.40 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1A1V4E1D2
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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