5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

RAVIN

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɹæv(ɪ)n//ˈɹæv(ə)n/

Noun

Property obtained or seized by force or violence; booty, plunder, spoils.

Noun

Of a (predatory) animal: seizing or devouring of food or prey; predation.

Adjective

Ravenous.

Verb

Sometimes followed by away or from: to obtain or seize (something, especially property) by force or violence; to plunder.

Alternative forms: raven, ravine

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 RAVIN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RAVIN 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 84.0% of games, misses completely in 16.0%, and leaves about 160 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,556 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

R___N R in the 1st position and N in the 5th position R__I_ R in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _A__N A in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in RAVIN.

First-turn measures

All four describe RAVIN 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.

4.77 Entropy (bits)
160 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 70% of evaluated openers
1.17 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RAVIN 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#4,556 Rank among openers
Opening with RAVIN left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.66 average. It ranks #4,556 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
61
3 guesses
926
4 guesses
1,125
5 guesses
224
6 guesses
15
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AINR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
27%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

RAVIN can come back 105 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

380 answers
252 answers
237 answers
186 answers
146 answers
118 answers
115 answers
87 answers
83 answers
57 answers
57 answers
41 answers
36 answers
35 answers
35 answers
26 answers
22 answers
20 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1A1V4I1N1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

STOLE TOUSE SLATE STILE TRACE SUETY

Strategy after playing RAVIN

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RAVIN:

16% chance
Suggested:
STOLE
11% chance
Suggested:
TOUSE
10% chance
Suggested:
SLATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.0% →
STOLE 5.98 bits
10.6% →
TOUSE 5.51 bits
10.0% →
SLATE 5.76 bits
7.8% →
STILE 5.42 bits
6.1% →
TRACE 4.83 bits
5.0% →
SUETY 4.48 bits
4.8% →
SOUCE 5.13 bits
3.7% →
SHITE 4.53 bits
3.5% →
SPITE 4.41 bits
2.4% →
STONE 4.36 bits

Research on RAVIN

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

Optimal play

Opening with RAVIN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,215 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.84 guesses at best and is rank #2,385 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it RAVIHN.

Rhymes with SAVIN

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
RAVIN sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).