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

RESAT

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

As an opener, it rules out about 96.7% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of resit

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.

Why this solver ranks RESAT highly

This solver ranks RESAT highly because it separates the possible answers well, even though it is not itself a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 90.1% of games, misses completely in 9.9%, and leaves about 78 possible answers on average.

In the current bounded six-turn policy, it ranks #79 of 182 evaluated openers; exact misses rank first, then average guesses among wins.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #113 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.56 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.

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First-turn measures

All four describe RESAT 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.

5.72 Entropy (bits)
78 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
96.7% Avg ruled out
In the top 1% for first-turn entropy
0.23 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RESAT 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.

3.56 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#113 Rank among openers
Opening with RESAT 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 3.56 average. It ranks #113 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
95
3 guesses
1,014
4 guesses
1,095
5 guesses
137
6 guesses
12
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:
AERST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
90%
Green tile
30%
All gray
10%

Feedback distribution

RESAT can come back 138 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

235 answers
151 answers
138 answers
124 answers
109 answers
90 answers
88 answers
86 answers
66 answers
64 answers
62 answers
58 answers
51 answers
41 answers
37 answers
36 answers
33 answers
33 answers
31 answers
31 answers
31 answers
31 answers
30 answers
27 answers
26 answers
24 answers
22 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1E1S1A1T1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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

Strategy after playing RESAT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RESAT:

10% chance
Suggested:
COULD
6% chance
Suggested:
MOILE
6% chance
Suggested:
MANIC

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

9.9%
COULD 5.50 bits
6.4%
MOILE 5.13 bits
5.8%
MANIC 4.68 bits
5.2%
CRIED 4.40 bits
4.6%
CRONY 4.73 bits
3.8%
SLINK 4.88 bits
3.7%
ANGLE 4.67 bits
3.6%
CAIRN 4.09 bits
2.8%
YOUTH 4.67 bits
2.7%
SPILE 4.60 bits

Research on RESAT

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

Optimal play

Opening with RESAT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.60 guesses and ranks #111 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 RESAT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.56, at or below the proven-optimal 3.60, 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 REESAHT. Estimated pronunciation

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

In a sentence

Tom resat the exam today.
© tatoeba.org contributor Ergulis (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I resat the English class because I failed last year.
© tatoeba.org contributor issadouba (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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