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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier for first-turn info

RELAY

Yes, RELAY was the Wordle answer on October 4, 2025 (Wordle #1568).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɹiːleɪ//ɹiˈleɪ//ˌɹiːˈleɪ/

Noun

A new set of anything.

Noun

A series of vehicles travelling in sequence.

Verb

To pass on or transfer (information).

“The CCTV cameras relay what's going on to the headquarters.”

Verb

Alternative spelling of re-lay.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: October 4, 2025 (#1568).

See the full page for that puzzle: October 4, 2025 (#1568).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How RELAY performs as a guess

RELAY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 90.6% of games, misses completely in 9.4%, and leaves about 100 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,467 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

R___Y R in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position R__A_ R in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _E__Y E in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in RELAY.

First-turn measures

All four describe RELAY 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.

5.30 Entropy (bits)
100 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 95% of evaluated openers
0.65 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RELAY 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#4,467 Rank among openers
Opening with RELAY left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.66 average. It ranks #4,467 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
88
3 guesses
886
4 guesses
1,135
5 guesses
219
6 guesses
24
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:
AELR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
91%
Green tile
34%
All gray
9%

Example solver route

R O A T E
L Y N C H
R E L A Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches RELAY in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

RELAY can come back 125 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

222 answers
180 answers
179 answers
150 answers
149 answers
108 answers
103 answers
99 answers
97 answers
95 answers
73 answers
68 answers
56 answers
54 answers
51 answers
33 answers
31 answers
23 answers
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18 answers
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17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1E1L1A1Y4
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

HOIST TOISE SAINT GROUT DUSTY SLICK

Strategy after playing RELAY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RELAY:

9% chance
Suggested:
HOIST
8% chance
Suggested:
TOISE
8% chance
Suggested:
TOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

9.4% →
HOIST 5.86 bits
7.6% →
TOISE 4.75 bits
7.5% →
TOISE 5.33 bits
6.3% →
SAINT 5.36 bits
6.3% →
GROUT 5.09 bits
4.5% →
DUSTY 3.88 bits
4.3% →
SLICK 4.57 bits
4.2% →
CHART 4.29 bits
4.1% →
SLEET 4.51 bits
4.0% →
SAUNT 4.48 bits

Research on RELAY

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

Optimal play

Opening with RELAY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #3,086 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.84 guesses at best and is rank #2,609 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it REELAY.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, RELAY is a kind of passage or shift.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
RELAY sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 7 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 9, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 45 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.

In a sentence

Did you relay my message?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I need you to relay some information for me.
© tatoeba.org contributor slyfin (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0).