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

REGOT

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.2% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of reget

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

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 REGOT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts REGOT 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 86.0% of games, misses completely in 14.0%, and leaves about 115 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,452 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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 REGOT 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.

5.20 Entropy (bits)
115 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 92% of evaluated openers
0.74 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How REGOT 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#2,452 Rank among openers
Opening with REGOT left 2 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 3.63 average. It ranks #2,452 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
78
3 guesses
924
4 guesses
1,161
5 guesses
174
6 guesses
15
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
2 vowels
Common:
EORT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
29%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

REGOT can come back 113 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

332 answers
213 answers
152 answers
129 answers
126 answers
105 answers
78 answers
70 answers
70 answers
66 answers
53 answers
50 answers
48 answers
46 answers
45 answers
44 answers
43 answers
43 answers
40 answers
37 answers
36 answers
30 answers
28 answers
28 answers
26 answers
26 answers
22 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1E1G2O1T1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing REGOT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing REGOT:

14% chance
Suggested:
SLAIN
9% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
6% chance
Suggested:
SAICE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.0%
SLAIN 5.92 bits
9.0%
SLANE 5.50 bits
6.4%
SAICE 4.75 bits
5.4%
CAIRN 4.92 bits
5.3%
SCOLD 4.81 bits
4.4%
SAUCY 4.69 bits
3.3%
SONDE 4.26 bits
2.9%
SHALE 4.65 bits
2.9%
SCALE 4.72 bits
2.8%
ACORN 4.47 bits

Research on REGOT

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

Optimal play

Opening with REGOT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,614 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 REGOT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it REHGUHT. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.