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

REMEN

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

No dictionary definition for REMEN is recorded in our sourced data.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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Use REMEN in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 91.8% 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 REMEN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts REMEN 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 79.2% of games, misses completely in 20.8%, and leaves about 196 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,002 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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 REMEN 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.

4.60 Entropy (bits)
196 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How REMEN 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#7,002 Rank among openers
Opening with REMEN solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.70 average. It ranks #7,002 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
72
3 guesses
835
4 guesses
1,187
5 guesses
242
6 guesses
18

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ENR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
30%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

REMEN can come back 101 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

497 answers
264 answers
227 answers
204 answers
120 answers
101 answers
87 answers
69 answers
68 answers
44 answers
42 answers
39 answers
37 answers
36 answers
32 answers
32 answers
28 answers
27 answers
25 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
18 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1E1M3E1N1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing REMEN

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing REMEN:

21% chance
Suggested:
SAULT
11% chance
Suggested:
COAST
10% chance
Suggested:
SAULT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.8% →
SAULT 5.98 bits
11.1% →
COAST 5.55 bits
9.5% →
SAULT 5.75 bits
8.6% →
SAINT 5.19 bits
5.0% →
COAST 4.89 bits
4.2% →
SOILY 3.72 bits
3.6% →
SOILY 4.91 bits
2.9% →
SHALT 4.70 bits
2.9% →
ANISE 4.58 bits
1.8% →
LAIDE 4.03 bits

Research on REMEN

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

Optimal play

Opening with REMEN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,748 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.88 guesses at best and is rank #3,612 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.70, at or below the proven-optimal 3.71, 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
REMEN sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

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