Accepted guess Not a possible answer A tier for first-turn info

REALO

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A member of a more pragmatic faction within a leftist organisation, often the FRG Green Party.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use REALO in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 97.0% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How REALO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts REALO 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 92.3% of games, misses completely in 7.7%, and leaves about 72 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,268 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe REALO 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.

5.62 Entropy (bits)
72 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
97.0% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How REALO 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
100% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#2,268 Rank among openers
Opening with REALO solved every answer in the snapshot within 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 #2,268 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
78
3 guesses
955
4 guesses
1,112
5 guesses
191
6 guesses
18

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AELOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
92%
Green tile
32%
All gray
8%

Feedback distribution

REALO can come back 112 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

184 answers
139 answers
129 answers
128 answers
124 answers
88 answers
80 answers
71 answers
70 answers
70 answers
64 answers
62 answers
60 answers
57 answers
52 answers
49 answers
45 answers
43 answers
40 answers
39 answers
38 answers
36 answers
35 answers
33 answers
33 answers
31 answers
29 answers
28 answers
27 answers
26 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1E1A1L1O1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Strategy after playing REALO

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing REALO:

8% chance
Suggested:
SIGHT
6% chance
Suggested:
SNOUT
5% chance
Suggested:
STIPE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

7.7% →
SIGHT 5.38 bits
5.8% →
SNOUT 4.93 bits
5.4% →
STIPE 4.62 bits
5.4% →
SNIDE 5.34 bits
5.2% →
NASTY 4.72 bits
3.7% →
THORN 4.35 bits
3.4% →
CRUST 4.99 bits
3.0% →
SONCE 4.50 bits
2.9% →
PLUNK 4.32 bits
2.9% →
SAUNT 4.46 bits

Research on REALO

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

Optimal play

Opening with REALO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.64 guesses and ranks #1,254 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 REALO can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.64, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).