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REPAT

REPAT 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

A repatriate.

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 REPAT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts REPAT 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 88.3% of games, misses completely in 11.7%, and leaves about 97 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #808 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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 REPAT 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.

5.46 Entropy (bits)
97 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 98% of evaluated openers
0.49 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How REPAT 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#808 Rank among openers
Opening with REPAT 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 3.59 average. It ranks #808 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
95
3 guesses
977
4 guesses
1,083
5 guesses
185
6 guesses
13
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:
AERT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
30%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

REPAT can come back 131 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

277 answers
179 answers
176 answers
127 answers
115 answers
102 answers
92 answers
83 answers
64 answers
56 answers
55 answers
53 answers
52 answers
48 answers
37 answers
37 answers
36 answers
36 answers
35 answers
33 answers
33 answers
29 answers
29 answers
27 answers
25 answers
24 answers
22 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1E1P3A1T1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing REPAT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing REPAT:

12% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
8% chance
Suggested:
NOISE
7% chance
Suggested:
SONLY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.7%
SOILY 5.73 bits
7.5%
NOISE 5.18 bits
7.4%
SONLY 5.05 bits
5.3%
SOLED 4.27 bits
4.8%
CRONY 4.69 bits
4.3%
SABLE 4.49 bits
3.9%
CHARD 4.33 bits
3.5%
SOUTH 4.74 bits
2.7%
CLINE 4.11 bits
2.4%
SLUMP 4.53 bits

Research on REPAT

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

Optimal play

Opening with REPAT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.62 guesses and ranks #448 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.72 guesses at best and is rank #70 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.59, at or below the proven-optimal 3.62, 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 second syllable Say it REEPAT. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.