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

REIRD

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɹɪəd//ɹiɚd/

Noun

Utterance, speech; an instance of this

Noun

A voice, a cry.

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

Etymology

From Old English reord, from Proto-Germanic *razdō.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use REIRD in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 91.9% 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 REIRD performs as a guess

Wordle accepts REIRD 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 79.8% of games, misses completely in 20.2%, and leaves about 193 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,622 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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 REIRD 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.

4.63 Entropy (bits)
193 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.9% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How REIRD 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#6,622 Rank among openers
Opening with REIRD left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.70 average. It ranks #6,622 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
858
4 guesses
1,202
5 guesses
225
6 guesses
13

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EIR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
33%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

REIRD can come back 95 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

482 answers
313 answers
174 answers
174 answers
165 answers
102 answers
101 answers
55 answers
53 answers
49 answers
48 answers
39 answers
37 answers
32 answers
30 answers
29 answers
25 answers
25 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
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16 answers
13 answers
11 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1E1I1R1D2
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Strategy after playing REIRD

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing REIRD:

20% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
13% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
7% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.2% →
SLANT 5.91 bits
13.1% →
SLANT 5.78 bits
7.3% →
COAST 5.41 bits
7.3% →
CASTE 4.66 bits
6.9% →
SATIN 5.06 bits
4.3% →
SLANT 5.19 bits
4.2% →
SHALT 4.76 bits
2.3% →
TINGE 4.32 bits
2.2% →
DANDY 4.34 bits
2.1% →
SLANT 4.43 bits

Research on REIRD

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

Optimal play

Opening with REIRD, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,453 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 REIRD can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.70, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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).