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

RENEY

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

Alternative form of renay.

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

Use RENEY in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 92.7% 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 RENEY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RENEY 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 82.5% of games, misses completely in 17.5%, and leaves about 173 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,511 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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 RENEY 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.

4.68 Entropy (bits)
173 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.7% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RENEY 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.79% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#8,511 Rank among openers
Opening with RENEY left 5 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 3.73 average. It ranks #8,511 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
61
3 guesses
801
4 guesses
1,220
5 guesses
245
6 guesses
22

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ENR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
41%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

RENEY can come back 97 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

418 answers
253 answers
252 answers
186 answers
158 answers
126 answers
102 answers
59 answers
58 answers
54 answers
48 answers
47 answers
45 answers
34 answers
27 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
23 answers
23 answers
23 answers
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18 answers
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15 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1E1N1E1Y4
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing RENEY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RENEY:

18% chance
Suggested:
COAST
11% chance
Suggested:
SAULT
11% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.5% →
COAST 5.99 bits
10.6% →
SAULT 5.73 bits
10.6% →
COAST 5.60 bits
7.8% →
SAULT 4.73 bits
6.6% →
SAINT 5.33 bits
5.3% →
COAST 4.87 bits
4.3% →
SOLAR 3.70 bits
2.5% →
GROAN 4.40 bits
2.4% →
ANISE 4.70 bits
2.3% →
DEALT 4.57 bits

Research on RENEY

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

Optimal play

Opening with RENEY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,090 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 RENEY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.73; proven optimal play reaches 3.72. 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).