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

REMAN

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈmæn/

Verb

To supply with new personnel.

Adjective

Clipping of remanufactured.

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

Use REMAN in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 95.3% 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 REMAN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts REMAN 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 88.0% of games, misses completely in 12.0%, and leaves about 112 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,825 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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 REMAN 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.

5.21 Entropy (bits)
112 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How REMAN 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#1,825 Rank among openers
Opening with REMAN solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.62 average. It ranks #1,825 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
85
3 guesses
939
4 guesses
1,142
5 guesses
171
6 guesses
17

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AENR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
25%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

REMAN can come back 121 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

285 answers
188 answers
175 answers
166 answers
145 answers
124 answers
106 answers
95 answers
73 answers
69 answers
69 answers
65 answers
49 answers
37 answers
35 answers
30 answers
29 answers
28 answers
27 answers
24 answers
24 answers
24 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1E1M3A1N1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing REMAN

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing REMAN:

12% chance
Suggested:
SLOTH
8% chance
Suggested:
STILE
7% chance
Suggested:
SLATY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.0% →
SLOTH 5.77 bits
7.9% →
STILE 5.61 bits
7.3% →
SLATY 5.15 bits
7.0% →
TOISE 4.64 bits
6.1% →
COURT 5.18 bits
5.2% →
COUNT 4.95 bits
4.4% →
SAULT 4.78 bits
4.0% →
CHART 4.48 bits
3.1% →
PLATE 3.64 bits
2.9% →
SAINT 4.47 bits

Research on REMAN

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

Optimal play

Opening with REMAN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,773 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 REMAN can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
REMAN sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).