REACH
Yes, REACH was the Wordle answer on January 22, 2025 (Wordle #1313).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ɹiːt͡ʃ/
- Verb
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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
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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
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The act of stretching or extending; extension.
- Noun
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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.
Etymology
From Middle English rechen, from Old English rǣċan (“to reach”), from Proto-West Germanic *raikijan, from Proto-Germanic *raikijaną, from the Proto-Indo-European *Hreyǵ- (“to bind, reach”).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it REECH.
Rhymes with BEACH TEACH PEACH BEECH LEACH
Related meanings
Synonyms make give hand hit RANGE pass
In a sentence
He was out of reach.
How can I reach you?
Use REACH in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 95.2% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: January 22, 2025 (#1313).
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See what the public sample says →REACH in Connections
3 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #655
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REACH appeared in AFFECT (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #431
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REACH appeared in BREADTH (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #303
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REACH appeared in BREADTH (yellow group).
How REACH performs as a guess
REACH is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 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 116 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
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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.
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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
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:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for REACH; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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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:
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.
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.
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.