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

RENOS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.9% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of reno

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of reno

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 RENOS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RENOS 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 89.8% of games, misses completely in 10.2%, and leaves about 97 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,013 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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 RENOS 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.

5.29 Entropy (bits)
97 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 95% of evaluated openers
0.65 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RENOS 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#1,013 Rank among openers
Opening with RENOS left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.60 average. It ranks #1,013 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
79
3 guesses
983
4 guesses
1,108
5 guesses
168
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ENORS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
90%
Green tile
24%
All gray
10%

Feedback distribution

RENOS can come back 114 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

241 answers
181 answers
170 answers
140 answers
129 answers
127 answers
101 answers
82 answers
78 answers
65 answers
63 answers
56 answers
50 answers
49 answers
47 answers
44 answers
44 answers
41 answers
37 answers
36 answers
35 answers
33 answers
28 answers
27 answers
25 answers
22 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1E1N1O1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Strategy after playing RENOS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RENOS:

10% chance
Suggested:
PLAIT
8% chance
Suggested:
TABLE
7% chance
Suggested:
CADET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

10.2%
PLAIT 5.59 bits
7.6%
TABLE 5.46 bits
7.2%
CADET 4.63 bits
5.9%
SHALT 5.35 bits
5.4%
LOATH 4.87 bits
5.3%
TRAIL 5.28 bits
4.3%
PLATE 5.03 bits
3.5%
THALE 4.71 bits
3.3%
GIANT 5.03 bits
2.7%
COALY 4.26 bits

Research on RENOS

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

Optimal play

Opening with RENOS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.64 guesses and ranks #1,278 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.77 guesses at best and is rank #697 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.60, at or below the proven-optimal 3.64, 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 REENOHS. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
RENOS 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).