5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

RELOS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 96.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of relo

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 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 90 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 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.

Useful pattern pages

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

R___S R in the 1st position and S in the 5th position R__O_ R in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

PAINT PATEE DAINE TRAIN SAINT ALIGN
Words starting with R Words ending with S

First-turn measures

5.32 Entropy (bits)
90 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
96.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 96% of evaluated openers
0.63 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 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
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#1,409 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, RELOS 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
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:
ELORS

Feedback chances

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

Feedback distribution

107 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

219
165
139
127
125
119
118
104
88
73
67
55
54
53
50
48
41
41
40
37
34
28
28
28
26
26
22
22
22
21

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 5.61 bits
7.0% →
PATEE 4.77 bits
5.9% →
DAINE 5.15 bits
5.4% →
TRAIN 5.15 bits
5.3% →
SAINT 5.28 bits
5.0% →
ALIGN 4.75 bits
5.0% →
MONTH 5.00 bits
4.4% →
BAILE 4.59 bits
3.7% →
SPATE 4.77 bits
3.1% →
ACORN 4.49 bits

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.