5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

RAYED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.1% of possible answers.

Open Solver with RAYED Open Word Finder

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of ray

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 RAYED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RAYED 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 87.8% of games, misses completely in 12.2%, and leaves about 114 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,566 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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

CLOUT SLICE SLANT GROUT SOILY COAST
Words starting with R Words ending with D

First-turn measures

5.15 Entropy (bits)
114 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 90% of evaluated openers
0.80 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How RAYED 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
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#4,566 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, RAYED ranks #4,566 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
68
3 guesses
906
4 guesses
1,144
5 guesses
220
6 guesses
14
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)
88%
Green tile
32%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

109 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

287
216
171
149
128
123
99
97
96
82
71
53
43
43
40
31
30
28
26
25
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
15
14
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RAYED:

12% chance
Suggested:
CLOUT
9% chance
Suggested:
SLICE
7% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.2% →
CLOUT 5.81 bits
9.2% →
SLICE 5.35 bits
7.3% →
SLANT 5.41 bits
6.3% →
GROUT 5.10 bits
5.4% →
SOILY 4.47 bits
5.2% →
SLANT 5.10 bits
4.2% →
COAST 4.51 bits
4.1% →
TOISE 3.63 bits
4.1% →
TOISE 4.63 bits
3.5% →
SATIN 4.26 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1A1Y4E1D2
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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