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

REDOS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of redo

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 REDOS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts REDOS 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 87.0% of games, misses completely in 13.0%, and leaves about 118 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,825 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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.
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Useful pattern pages

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

R___S R in the 1st position and S in the 5th position R__O_ R in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe REDOS 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.

5.08 Entropy (bits)
118 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 87% of evaluated openers
0.87 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How REDOS 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#2,825 Rank among openers
Opening with REDOS left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It ranks #2,825 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
67
3 guesses
935
4 guesses
1,154
5 guesses
183
6 guesses
13
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:
EORS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
22%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

REDOS can come back 101 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

308 answers
207 answers
173 answers
156 answers
142 answers
129 answers
107 answers
78 answers
70 answers
62 answers
57 answers
47 answers
45 answers
44 answers
42 answers
40 answers
38 answers
38 answers
35 answers
34 answers
32 answers
30 answers
30 answers
29 answers
23 answers
22 answers
20 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1E1D2O1S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Try next

PAINT ALINE SAULT PATEE LOATH TRAIL

Strategy after playing REDOS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing REDOS:

13% chance
Suggested:
PAINT
9% chance
Suggested:
ALINE
7% chance
Suggested:
SAULT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.0% →
PAINT 5.76 bits
8.7% →
ALINE 5.38 bits
7.3% →
SAULT 5.26 bits
6.6% →
PATEE 4.83 bits
6.0% →
LOATH 4.92 bits
5.4% →
TRAIL 5.12 bits
4.5% →
SLANT 4.90 bits
3.3% →
THALE 4.65 bits
2.9% →
ACORN 4.35 bits
2.6% →
CLONE 4.32 bits

Research on REDOS

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

Optimal play

Opening with REDOS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,552 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 REDOS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it REEDOHZ. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, REDOS is a kind of make or change.

Synonyms remake reconstruct

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
REDOS 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.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.2 of 5).

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 relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).