5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

RESAY

RESAY 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.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

To say again, to repeat, to reiterate.

“If we say something and people reject it because they don't like that it is true then we must resay it, and keep resaying it, until the truth is heard.”

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 RESAY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RESAY 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 90.9% of games, misses completely in 9.1%, and leaves about 96 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,243 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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.

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

R___Y R in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position R__A_ R in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _E__Y E in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

COUNT TOILE TALON GROUT SPILT DIMLY
Words starting with R Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

5.30 Entropy (bits)
96 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 95% of evaluated openers
0.65 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How RESAY 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#5,243 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, RESAY ranks #5,243 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
78
3 guesses
886
4 guesses
1,140
5 guesses
226
6 guesses
24
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AERS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
91%
Green tile
34%
All gray
9%

Feedback distribution

113 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

215
184
154
153
125
112
106
106
93
92
69
66
62
52
47
39
39
36
29
27
25
21
21
19
19
18
17
17
17
17

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RESAY:

9% chance
Suggested:
COUNT
8% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
7% chance
Suggested:
TALON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

9.1% →
COUNT 5.97 bits
7.8% →
TOILE 5.53 bits
6.5% →
TALON 4.99 bits
6.5% →
TOILE 4.37 bits
5.3% →
GROUT 4.84 bits
4.7% →
SPILT 4.85 bits
4.5% →
DIMLY 3.95 bits
4.5% →
ANGLE 4.63 bits
3.9% →
TRAIN 4.07 bits
3.9% →
STILE 4.67 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1E1S1A1Y4
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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