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

RERIG

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.5% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

To rig again; to outfit (a ship) with new rigging.

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 RERIG performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RERIG 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 79.7% of games, misses completely in 20.3%, and leaves about 201 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,887 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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 RERIG 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.

4.42 Entropy (bits)
201 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 47% of evaluated openers
1.53 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RERIG 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#9,887 Rank among openers
Opening with RERIG left 2 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 3.76 average. It ranks #9,887 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
768
4 guesses
1,265
5 guesses
252
6 guesses
21
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EIR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
26%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

RERIG can come back 83 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

480 answers
320 answers
175 answers
174 answers
169 answers
112 answers
100 answers
90 answers
62 answers
62 answers
54 answers
50 answers
45 answers
30 answers
27 answers
24 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
20 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
8 answers

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RERIG:

20% chance
Suggested:
SAULT
14% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
7% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.3%
SAULT 5.92 bits
13.6%
SLANT 5.77 bits
7.4%
COAST 4.77 bits
7.4%
SLATY 4.98 bits
7.2%
COAST 5.26 bits
4.7%
SHALT 4.78 bits
4.2%
SNIDE 4.52 bits
3.8%
COAST 4.99 bits
2.6%
GAUDY 4.60 bits
2.6%
COAST 4.72 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1E1R1I1G2
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

The science of RERIG

What game-tree analysis and word research measure about RERIG — each figure with what it means.

Optimal play

Opening with RERIG, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses — rank #10,389 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 RERIG can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.76 — at or below the proven-optimal 3.79 only 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) — not the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable — say it REHRIHG. 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.