5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

REGAL

Yes, REGAL was the Wordle answer on March 8, 2023 (Wordle #627).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɹiːɡəl/

Adjective

Of, pertaining to, or suitable for royalty.

“regal authority”

Adjective

Befitting a monarch.

Noun

A small, portable organ whose sound is produced by brass beating reeds without amplifying resonators. Its tone is keen and rich in harmonics. The regal was common in the 16th and 17th centuries, and has been revived for the performance of music from those times.

Noun

An organ stop of the reed family, furnished with a normal beating reed, but whose resonator is a fraction of its natural length. In the 16th and 17th centuries these stops took a multitude of forms. Today only one survives that is of universal currency, the so-called vox humana.

Alternative forms: regall, rigole

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: March 8, 2023 (#627).

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

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How REGAL performs as a guess

REGAL 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 88.2% of games, misses completely in 11.8%, and leaves about 109 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,119 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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___L R in the 1st position and L in the 5th position R__A_ R in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _E__L E in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

Try next

HOIST SATIN TOISE COURT SOILY CHART
Words starting with R Words ending with L

First-turn measures

5.26 Entropy (bits)
109 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 94% of evaluated openers
0.69 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How REGAL 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#3,119 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, REGAL ranks #3,119 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
78
3 guesses
913
4 guesses
1,152
5 guesses
195
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:
AELR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
25%
All gray
12%

Example solver route

R O A T E
L Y N C H
R E G A L

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches REGAL in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

121 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

278
176
174
171
153
122
108
85
80
71
54
53
43
42
40
27
26
22
22
22
21
19
19
19
19
17
17
17
16
16

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing REGAL:

12% chance
Suggested:
HOIST
7% chance
Suggested:
SATIN
7% chance
Suggested:
TOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.8% →
HOIST 5.83 bits
7.5% →
SATIN 5.16 bits
7.4% →
TOISE 5.34 bits
7.3% →
TOISE 4.71 bits
6.5% →
COURT 5.30 bits
5.2% →
SOILY 4.69 bits
4.6% →
CHART 4.40 bits
3.6% →
SAUNT 4.43 bits
3.4% →
STALK 4.24 bits
3.0% →
STILE 4.58 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1E1G2A1L1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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