5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer A tier opener

RELIT

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

As an opener, it rules out about 96.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of relight

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 RELIT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RELIT 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 90.8% of games, misses completely in 9.2%, and leaves about 84 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #657 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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.

Useful pattern pages

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

R___T R in the 1st position and T in the 5th position R__I_ R in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _E__T E in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position RE_IT R in the 1st position, E in the 2nd position, I in the 4th position, and T in the 5th position

Try next

MASON ACORN AROSE DANSE SAUCY SLANE
Words starting with R Words ending with T

First-turn measures

5.55 Entropy (bits)
84 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
96.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 99% of evaluated openers
0.40 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How RELIT 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#657 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, RELIT ranks #657 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
88
3 guesses
1,002
4 guesses
1,069
5 guesses
174
6 guesses
19
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EILRT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
91%
Green tile
31%
All gray
9%

Feedback distribution

127 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

218
165
162
143
135
98
86
83
63
50
47
46
42
41
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RELIT:

9% chance
Suggested:
MASON
7% chance
Suggested:
ACORN
7% chance
Suggested:
AROSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

9.2% →
MASON 5.42 bits
7.0% →
ACORN 5.19 bits
6.9% →
AROSE 4.51 bits
6.1% →
DANSE 5.18 bits
5.7% →
SAUCY 5.02 bits
4.2% →
SLANE 4.44 bits
3.6% →
SOUTH 4.78 bits
3.5% →
SHINY 4.89 bits
2.7% →
SNIDE 4.64 bits
2.1% →
TASTE 4.63 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1E1L1I1T1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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