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

RELOS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of relo

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

Use RELOS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 96.2% 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 RELOS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RELOS 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 90.7% of games, misses completely in 9.3%, and leaves about 91 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,409 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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 RELOS 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.

5.32 Entropy (bits)
91 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
96.2% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RELOS 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#1,409 Rank among openers
Opening with RELOS solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.61 average. It ranks #1,409 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
75
3 guesses
972
4 guesses
1,121
5 guesses
172
6 guesses
14

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ELORS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
91%
Green tile
23%
All gray
9%

Feedback distribution

RELOS can come back 107 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

222 answers
166 answers
141 answers
127 answers
127 answers
120 answers
118 answers
106 answers
88 answers
73 answers
69 answers
56 answers
55 answers
53 answers
50 answers
49 answers
43 answers
41 answers
41 answers
37 answers
34 answers
28 answers
28 answers
28 answers
27 answers
26 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1E1L1O1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Strategy after playing RELOS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RELOS:

9% chance
Suggested:
PAINT
7% chance
Suggested:
PATEE
6% chance
Suggested:
DAINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

9.3% →
PAINT 5.63 bits
7.0% →
PATEE 4.78 bits
5.9% →
DAINE 5.15 bits
5.3% →
SAINT 5.27 bits
5.3% →
TRAIN 5.15 bits
5.0% →
ALIGN 4.75 bits
4.9% →
MONTH 5.00 bits
4.4% →
BAILE 4.58 bits
3.7% →
SPATE 4.77 bits
3.1% →
ACORN 4.49 bits

Research on RELOS

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

Optimal play

Opening with RELOS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,600 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 RELOS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.61, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).