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.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈɹiːɡəl/
- Adjective
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Of, pertaining to, or suitable for royalty.
“regal authority”
- Adjective
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Befitting a monarch.
- Noun
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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
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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
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Playable guess
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Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: March 8, 2023 (#627).
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REGAL is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 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 110 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,119 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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First-turn measures
All four describe REGAL 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.
As an opening guess: previous 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches REGAL in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
REGAL can come back 121 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for REGAL; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Strategy after playing REGAL
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to REGAL.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing REGAL:
Research on REGAL
Game-tree analysis and word research for REGAL, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with REGAL, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,285 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 REGAL can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.66, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- REGAL sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 2 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.3 of 5).
In a sentence
The garden hosted a regal peacock.
Her Ladyship entered the parlor with a regal air.
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); 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).