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

REGIA

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

No dictionary definition for REGIA is recorded in our sourced data.

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

Meaning and pronunciation

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

Check REGIA on Wiktionary or report a missing entry.

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 REGIA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts REGIA 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 90.2% of games, misses completely in 9.8%, and leaves about 110 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,688 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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 REGIA 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.

5.14 Entropy (bits)
110 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 90% of evaluated openers
0.81 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How REGIA 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#4,688 Rank among openers
Opening with REGIA left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.66 average. It ranks #4,688 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
74
3 guesses
899
4 guesses
1,131
5 guesses
236
6 guesses
11
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
3 vowels
Common:
AEIR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
90%
Green tile
24%
All gray
10%

Feedback distribution

REGIA can come back 108 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

232 answers
230 answers
174 answers
144 answers
141 answers
133 answers
125 answers
113 answers
90 answers
73 answers
66 answers
53 answers
48 answers
47 answers
43 answers
40 answers
39 answers
33 answers
29 answers
27 answers
24 answers
21 answers
18 answers
18 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1E1G2I1A1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing REGIA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing REGIA:

10% chance
Suggested:
SLOTH
10% chance
Suggested:
SONLY
7% chance
Suggested:
SLEET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

9.8%
SLOTH 5.52 bits
9.7%
SONLY 5.20 bits
7.3%
SLEET 5.53 bits
6.1%
SLATE 4.81 bits
5.9%
SPILT 4.91 bits
5.6%
TOUSE 4.67 bits
5.3%
COURT 5.07 bits
4.8%
COAST 4.57 bits
3.8%
SNIDE 4.46 bits
3.1%
CASTE 3.97 bits

Research on REGIA

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

Optimal play

Opening with REGIA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #4,395 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 REGIA can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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

Three syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it REEJEEUH. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
REGIA sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

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 frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).