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

RECUE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 RECUE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RECUE 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 79.4% of games, misses completely in 20.6%, and leaves about 180 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,228 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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.

Useful pattern pages

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

R___E R in the 1st position and E in the 5th position R__U_ R in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _E__E E in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SALON TRAIN SLANT ALIEN CHAIN SAINT
Words starting with R Words ending with E

First-turn measures

All four describe RECUE 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.

4.67 Entropy (bits)
180 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 63% of evaluated openers
1.28 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RECUE 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#7,228 Rank among openers
Opening with RECUE left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.71 average. It ranks #7,228 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
60
3 guesses
862
4 guesses
1,163
5 guesses
242
6 guesses
25
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
ERU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
33%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

RECUE can come back 91 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

485 answers
239 answers
162 answers
155 answers
144 answers
129 answers
128 answers
77 answers
70 answers
58 answers
46 answers
40 answers
40 answers
30 answers
30 answers
29 answers
28 answers
27 answers
23 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RECUE:

21% chance
Suggested:
SALON
10% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
7% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.6% →
SALON 5.96 bits
10.1% →
TRAIN 5.22 bits
6.9% →
SLANT 5.04 bits
6.6% →
SLANT 5.31 bits
6.1% →
ALIEN 5.18 bits
5.5% →
CHAIN 5.22 bits
5.4% →
SAINT 4.26 bits
3.3% →
SHALT 4.62 bits
3.0% →
POIRE 3.73 bits
2.5% →
CROAK 4.36 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1E1C3U1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

The science of RECUE

What game-tree analysis and word research measure about RECUE — each figure with what it means.

Optimal play

Opening with RECUE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses — rank #7,469 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 RECUE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71 — at or below the proven-optimal 3.74 only 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) — not the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable — say it REEKYOO. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.