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REACT

Yes, REACT was the Wordle answer on July 17, 2021 (Wordle #28).

As an opener, it rules out about 96.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈækt/

Verb

To act in response.

“How did she react to the news?”

Verb

To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force

“Every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.”

Noun

An emoji used to express a reaction to a post on social media.

“Sad reacts only”

Alternative forms: reäct

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: July 17, 2021 (#28).

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

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How REACT performs as a guess

REACT is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 89.3% of games, misses completely in 10.7%, and leaves about 82 possible answers on average.

In the current bounded six-turn policy, it ranks #29 of 182 evaluated openers; exact misses rank first, then average guesses among wins.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #52 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.55 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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Useful pattern pages

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

R___T R in the 1st position and T in the 5th position R__C_ R in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _E__T E in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

SOILY SIDLE SONLY POISE GOURD ANGLE
Words starting with R Words ending with T

First-turn measures

5.69 Entropy (bits)
82 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
96.5% Avg ruled out
In the top 1% for first-turn entropy
0.26 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How REACT 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.

3.55 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#52 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, REACT ranks #52 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
96
3 guesses
1,052
4 guesses
1,041
5 guesses
149
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:
AERT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
37%
All gray
11%

Example solver route

R O A T E
R E A C T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches REACT in 2 guesses.

Feedback distribution

140 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

253
179
132
130
103
82
74
58
57
52
51
49
46
46
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42
39
36
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33
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28
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23
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing REACT:

11% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
8% chance
Suggested:
SIDLE
6% chance
Suggested:
SONLY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

10.7% →
SOILY 5.65 bits
7.6% →
SIDLE 5.40 bits
5.6% →
SONLY 5.23 bits
5.5% →
POISE 4.65 bits
4.4% →
GOURD 4.71 bits
3.5% →
ANGLE 4.59 bits
3.1% →
SOUTH 4.76 bits
2.5% →
NOISE 4.42 bits
2.4% →
MAYOR 4.19 bits
2.2% →
SMILE 4.14 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1E1A1C3T1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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