5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

RAVER

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A person who attends rave parties, or who belongs to that subculture.

Noun

A person who raves or rants.

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 RAVER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RAVER 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 79.3% of games, misses completely in 20.7%, and leaves about 202 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,658 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 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___R R in the 1st position and R in the 5th position R__E_ R in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__R A in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position RA_ER R in the 1st position, A in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and R in the 5th position

Try next

SOILY STILE SLANT COURT SLATE SONLY
Words starting with R Words ending with R

First-turn measures

4.40 Entropy (bits)
202 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 45% of evaluated openers
1.55 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How RAVER 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#12,658 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, RAVER ranks #12,658 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
690
4 guesses
1,242
5 guesses
341
6 guesses
27
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
2 vowels
Common:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
30%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

85 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

487
282
205
179
147
139
106
101
89
76
57
36
29
26
21
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9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RAVER:

21% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
12% chance
Suggested:
STILE
9% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.7% →
SOILY 5.67 bits
12.0% →
STILE 5.29 bits
8.7% →
SLANT 5.38 bits
7.6% →
COURT 5.04 bits
6.2% →
SLATE 4.94 bits
5.9% →
SONLY 4.45 bits
4.5% →
SLANT 4.22 bits
4.3% →
TROPE 4.43 bits
3.8% →
SIENT 4.38 bits
3.2% →
SOILY 3.58 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1A1V4E1R1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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