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REACH

Yes, REACH was the Wordle answer on January 22, 2025 (Wordle #1313).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɹiːt͡ʃ/

Verb

To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).

“He reached for a weapon that was on the table.”

Verb

To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another person; to hand over.

“to reach someone a book”

Noun

The act of stretching or extending; extension.

Noun

The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown.

“The fruit is beyond my reach.”

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: January 22, 2025 (#1313).

See the full page for that puzzle: January 22, 2025 (#1313).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How REACH performs as a guess

REACH 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 87.1% of games, misses completely in 12.9%, and leaves about 115 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,137 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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___H R in the 1st position and H in the 5th position R__C_ R in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _E__H E in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe REACH 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.

5.28 Entropy (bits)
115 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 94% of evaluated openers
0.67 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How REACH 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#2,137 Rank among openers
Opening with REACH left 1 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 3.62 average. It ranks #2,137 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
82
3 guesses
944
4 guesses
1,112
5 guesses
206
6 guesses
8
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:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
31%
All gray
13%

Example solver route

R O A T E
A L A R Y
R E A C H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches REACH in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

REACH can come back 127 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

306 answers
222 answers
195 answers
151 answers
137 answers
102 answers
72 answers
67 answers
59 answers
57 answers
54 answers
51 answers
50 answers
42 answers
39 answers
38 answers
34 answers
31 answers
29 answers
28 answers
27 answers
23 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1E1A1C3H4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

SOLID TOILE TALON TOISE DROIT SABLE

Strategy after playing REACH

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing REACH:

13% chance
Suggested:
SOLID
9% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
8% chance
Suggested:
TALON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.9% →
SOLID 5.60 bits
9.4% →
TOILE 5.41 bits
8.2% →
TALON 5.34 bits
6.4% →
TOISE 4.59 bits
5.8% →
DROIT 4.95 bits
4.3% →
SABLE 4.47 bits
3.0% →
TOILE 4.17 bits
2.8% →
ALTAR 4.29 bits
2.5% →
SLEET 3.70 bits
2.4% →
SLANT 4.63 bits

Research on REACH

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

Optimal play

Opening with REACH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,222 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 REACH can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.66, 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

One syllable Say it REECH.

Rhymes with BEACH TEACH PEACH BEECH LEACH

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, REACH is a kind of limit or extent.

Synonyms make give hand hit RANGE pass

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
REACH sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 87 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A2); among the first words English learners study.

In a sentence

He was out of reach.
© tatoeba.org contributor Nuel (CC BY 2.0 FR)
How can I reach you?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS.