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

REORG

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A reorganization.

Verb

To reorganize.

Alternative forms: re-org

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

Etymology

Abbreviation of reorganization.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use REORG in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 91.6% 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 REORG performs as a guess

Wordle accepts REORG 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 79.3% of games, misses completely in 20.7%, and leaves about 201 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,196 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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 REORG 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.

4.49 Entropy (bits)
201 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How REORG 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#9,196 Rank among openers
Opening with REORG left 3 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 3.74 average. It ranks #9,196 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
803
4 guesses
1,234
5 guesses
251
6 guesses
19

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EOR

Feedback chances

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

Feedback distribution

REORG can come back 79 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

493 answers
331 answers
171 answers
167 answers
138 answers
115 answers
92 answers
62 answers
59 answers
55 answers
50 answers
49 answers
43 answers
40 answers
37 answers
33 answers
32 answers
32 answers
28 answers
27 answers
23 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
15 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1E1O1R1G2
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing REORG

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing REORG:

21% chance
Suggested:
SNAIL
14% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
7% chance
Suggested:
SAICE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.7% →
SNAIL 5.89 bits
13.9% →
SLANT 5.78 bits
7.2% →
SAICE 4.61 bits
7.0% →
SAULT 4.85 bits
5.8% →
SAINT 5.18 bits
4.8% →
SHALT 4.82 bits
3.9% →
SLANT 4.54 bits
2.6% →
NOVEL 4.34 bits
2.5% →
CAROM 4.22 bits
2.3% →
GAMUT 4.44 bits

Research on REORG

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

Optimal play

Opening with REORG, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.78 guesses and ranks #9,626 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 REORG can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.74, at or below the proven-optimal 3.78, 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
REORG 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).