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

REGNA

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of regnum

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

Use REGNA in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 94.9% 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 REGNA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts REGNA 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 122 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,606 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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 REGNA 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.

5.12 Entropy (bits)
122 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.9% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How REGNA 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#3,606 Rank among openers
Opening with REGNA left 1 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 3.65 average. It ranks #3,606 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
77
3 guesses
915
4 guesses
1,139
5 guesses
206
6 guesses
16

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AENR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
25%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

REGNA can come back 115 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

309 answers
216 answers
190 answers
161 answers
151 answers
125 answers
115 answers
74 answers
73 answers
64 answers
57 answers
54 answers
41 answers
38 answers
38 answers
31 answers
28 answers
27 answers
25 answers
24 answers
23 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1E1G2N1A1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing REGNA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing REGNA:

13% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
9% chance
Suggested:
SLATY
8% chance
Suggested:
STILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.0% →
SOILY 5.65 bits
9.1% →
SLATY 5.24 bits
8.0% →
STILE 5.61 bits
6.8% →
TOISE 4.62 bits
6.3% →
COURT 5.27 bits
5.2% →
SLATE 4.92 bits
4.8% →
COAST 4.62 bits
3.1% →
CASTE 3.96 bits
3.1% →
SONIC 4.69 bits
2.7% →
TOILE 4.26 bits

Research on REGNA

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

Optimal play

Opening with REGNA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #2,829 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 REGNA can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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
REGNA 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).