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RENEW

Yes, RENEW was the Wordle answer on March 20, 2022 (Wordle #274).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈnjuː//ɹɪˈnjʉw//ɹɪˈnju/

Verb

To make (something) new again; to restore to freshness or original condition.

Verb

To replace (something which has broken etc.); to replenish (something which has been exhausted), to keep up a required supply of.

Noun

Synonym of renewal.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: March 20, 2022 (#274).

See the full page for that puzzle: March 20, 2022 (#274).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How RENEW performs as a guess

RENEW is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 76.1% of games, misses completely in 23.9%, and leaves about 227 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,614 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

R__E_ R in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _E__W E in the 2nd position and W in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe RENEW 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.

4.43 Entropy (bits)
227 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 47% of evaluated openers
1.52 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RENEW 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#9,614 Rank among openers
Opening with RENEW 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 3.75 average. It ranks #9,614 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
789
4 guesses
1,207
5 guesses
288
6 guesses
15
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ENR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
30%
All gray
24%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E N
R E N E W

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches RENEW in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

RENEW can come back 89 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

567 answers
279 answers
244 answers
164 answers
120 answers
93 answers
76 answers
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9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1E1N1E1W4
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SAULT COAST SAINT CRAPE SOILY SAUCY

Strategy after playing RENEW

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RENEW:

24% chance
Suggested:
SAULT
12% chance
Suggested:
COAST
10% chance
Suggested:
SAULT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.9% →
SAULT 5.94 bits
11.8% →
COAST 5.53 bits
10.3% →
SAULT 5.70 bits
6.9% →
SAINT 5.39 bits
5.1% →
CRAPE 4.65 bits
3.9% →
SOILY 3.68 bits
3.2% →
SAUCY 4.29 bits
3.1% →
SLATY 4.74 bits
2.5% →
ANISE 4.72 bits
2.2% →
GROAN 4.35 bits

Research on RENEW

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

Optimal play

Opening with RENEW, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,738 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 RENEW can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.75; proven optimal play reaches 3.74. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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 second syllable Say it RIHNOO.

Rhymes with DEBUT THREW SCREW QUEUE CANOE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, RENEW is a kind of recreate or restore.

Synonyms regenerate

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
RENEW sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 5 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (2.6 of 5).

In a sentence

I have to renew my passport.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I did not renew the subscription.
© tatoeba.org contributor Alexs (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).