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

REPOT

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

To move (a growing plant) from one pot to a larger one to allow for further growth.

Verb

To give (oneself) new challenges or environments as a means of personal growth.

Alternative forms: re-pot

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

In a sentence

I wanted to repot those flowers.
© tatoeba.org contributor Asif (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Ziri isn't going to repot his ivy.
© tatoeba.org contributor Amastan (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use REPOT in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 95.4% 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 REPOT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts REPOT 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 87.0% of games, misses completely in 13.0%, and leaves about 109 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #719 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 REPOT 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.

5.27 Entropy (bits)
109 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.4% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How REPOT 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
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#719 Rank among openers
Opening with REPOT left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.59 average. It ranks #719 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
80
3 guesses
983
4 guesses
1,121
5 guesses
157
6 guesses
12

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EORT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
29%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

REPOT can come back 115 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

310 answers
213 answers
144 answers
142 answers
127 answers
99 answers
81 answers
76 answers
70 answers
65 answers
62 answers
58 answers
46 answers
44 answers
43 answers
43 answers
42 answers
39 answers
37 answers
35 answers
33 answers
29 answers
29 answers
28 answers
25 answers
24 answers
22 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1E1P3O1T1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing REPOT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing REPOT:

13% chance
Suggested:
SLAIN
9% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
6% chance
Suggested:
SAICE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.0% →
SLAIN 5.92 bits
8.9% →
SLANE 5.43 bits
6.0% →
SAICE 4.63 bits
6.0% →
SONLY 4.72 bits
5.3% →
CAIRN 4.85 bits
4.2% →
TITAN 4.81 bits
3.4% →
LIANE 4.40 bits
3.2% →
SONDE 4.26 bits
2.9% →
ACORN 4.63 bits
2.7% →
SHALE 4.63 bits

Research on REPOT

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

Optimal play

Opening with REPOT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.62 guesses and ranks #651 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.73 guesses at best and is rank #160 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
REPOT 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).