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

RENAY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈneɪ/

Verb

To renounce (one’s faith or god), to apostasize from.

Verb

To take back, to recant (something one says or believes).

Alternative forms: reney, reny

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 RENAY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RENAY 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 90.5% of games, misses completely in 9.5%, and leaves about 102 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,647 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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Useful pattern pages

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

R___Y R in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position R__A_ R in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _E__Y E in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in RENAY.

First-turn measures

All four describe RENAY 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.

5.28 Entropy (bits)
102 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 94% of evaluated openers
0.66 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RENAY 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#3,647 Rank among openers
Opening with RENAY left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.65 average. It ranks #3,647 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
79
3 guesses
912
4 guesses
1,143
5 guesses
197
6 guesses
22
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AENR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
90%
Green tile
35%
All gray
10%

Feedback distribution

RENAY can come back 119 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

225 answers
202 answers
168 answers
158 answers
136 answers
126 answers
119 answers
92 answers
83 answers
74 answers
71 answers
65 answers
56 answers
51 answers
35 answers
34 answers
31 answers
29 answers
27 answers
25 answers
25 answers
24 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1E1N1A1Y4
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

HOIST STILE TOISE CLAIM COURT SIDLE

Strategy after playing RENAY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RENAY:

9% chance
Suggested:
HOIST
9% chance
Suggested:
STILE
7% chance
Suggested:
TOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

9.5% →
HOIST 5.82 bits
8.5% →
STILE 5.58 bits
7.1% →
TOISE 4.69 bits
6.7% →
CLAIM 5.08 bits
5.7% →
COURT 5.14 bits
5.3% →
SIDLE 4.20 bits
5.0% →
SAULT 4.78 bits
3.9% →
CHART 4.43 bits
3.5% →
SNOUT 4.82 bits
3.1% →
STAGE 3.51 bits

Research on RENAY

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

Optimal play

Opening with RENAY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,363 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 RENAY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.66, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it REENAY. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
RENAY 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); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).