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

REGGO

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of rego.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use REGGO in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 90.4% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How REGGO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts REGGO 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 79.3% of games, misses completely in 20.7%, and leaves about 229 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,009 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe REGGO 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.

4.14 Entropy (bits)
229 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.4% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How REGGO 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#12,009 Rank among openers
Opening with REGGO left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.81 average. It ranks #12,009 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
721
4 guesses
1,253
5 guesses
316
6 guesses
21

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
20%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

REGGO can come back 73 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

493 answers
331 answers
236 answers
206 answers
198 answers
129 answers
115 answers
103 answers
61 answers
53 answers
49 answers
34 answers
23 answers
23 answers
21 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
18 answers
18 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1E1G2G2O1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing REGGO

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing REGGO:

21% chance
Suggested:
SNAIL
14% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
10% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.7% →
SNAIL 5.89 bits
13.9% →
SLANT 5.78 bits
9.9% →
SLANT 5.21 bits
8.6% →
STAIR 4.54 bits
8.3% →
SAINT 5.27 bits
5.4% →
ARSON 4.23 bits
4.8% →
SHALT 4.82 bits
4.3% →
SONDE 4.26 bits
2.6% →
SOWNE 3.60 bits
2.2% →
SADLY 3.40 bits

Research on REGGO

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

Optimal play

Opening with REGGO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.83 guesses and ranks #12,111 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 REGGO can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.81, at or below the proven-optimal 3.83, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).