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

REGOS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of rego

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

Use REGOS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 94.8% 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 REGOS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts REGOS 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 123 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,014 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 REGOS 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.

5.00 Entropy (bits)
123 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How REGOS 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
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#4,014 Rank among openers
Opening with REGOS left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.65 average. It ranks #4,014 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
75
3 guesses
883
4 guesses
1,191
5 guesses
190
6 guesses
14

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EORS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
22%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

REGOS can come back 101 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

310 answers
215 answers
171 answers
160 answers
147 answers
139 answers
114 answers
89 answers
73 answers
67 answers
55 answers
48 answers
47 answers
46 answers
44 answers
43 answers
41 answers
35 answers
35 answers
31 answers
31 answers
30 answers
25 answers
25 answers
22 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1E1G2O1S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing REGOS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing REGOS:

13% chance
Suggested:
PLAIT
9% chance
Suggested:
ANILE
7% chance
Suggested:
SAULT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.0% →
PLAIT 5.69 bits
9.0% →
ANILE 5.50 bits
7.2% →
SAULT 5.27 bits
6.7% →
CADET 4.61 bits
6.2% →
TONAL 4.84 bits
5.8% →
TRAIL 5.25 bits
4.8% →
PLATE 4.96 bits
3.7% →
THALE 4.70 bits
3.1% →
ACORN 4.36 bits
2.8% →
CLINE 4.23 bits

Research on REGOS

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

Optimal play

Opening with REGOS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,561 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 REGOS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, 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).