5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

REBUY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈbaɪ/

Verb

To buy again, especially to buy something previously sold (or pawned)

Noun

A type of poker tournament that allows players to purchase more chips during the course of the tournament.

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 REBUY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts REBUY 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 83.4% of games, misses completely in 16.6%, and leaves about 188 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,470 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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.

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Useful pattern pages

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

R___Y R in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position R__U_ R in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _E__Y E in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe REBUY 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.

4.53 Entropy (bits)
188 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 54% of evaluated openers
1.41 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How REBUY 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#8,470 Rank among openers
Opening with REBUY left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.73 average. It ranks #8,470 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
821
4 guesses
1,196
5 guesses
252
6 guesses
25
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:
ERU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
31%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

REBUY can come back 92 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

394 answers
344 answers
234 answers
216 answers
156 answers
128 answers
90 answers
64 answers
50 answers
43 answers
40 answers
39 answers
38 answers
29 answers
29 answers
28 answers
28 answers
26 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1E1B3U1Y4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

COAST SLANT LIANE TARRE SAINT SLAIN

Strategy after playing REBUY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing REBUY:

17% chance
Suggested:
COAST
14% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
10% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.6% →
COAST 5.93 bits
14.5% →
SLANT 5.80 bits
9.9% →
COAST 4.75 bits
9.1% →
COAST 5.45 bits
6.6% →
SLANT 4.74 bits
5.4% →
SLANT 5.13 bits
3.8% →
LIANE 4.47 bits
2.7% →
SLANT 4.44 bits
2.1% →
SLANT 3.39 bits
1.8% →
TARRE 3.85 bits

Research on REBUY

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

Optimal play

Opening with REBUY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,687 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.92 guesses at best and is rank #4,725 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.73, at or below the proven-optimal 3.74, 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

Three syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it REHBEEOO. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
REBUY sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).