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

RESAY

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

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.

Use RESAY in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 96.0% 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 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 opener 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe RESAY 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.

5.30 Entropy (bits)
96 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
96.0% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous 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% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#5,243 Rank among openers
Opening with RESAY solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.67 average. It 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

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AERS

Feedback chances

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

Feedback distribution

RESAY can come back 113 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

216 answers
187 answers
156 answers
153 answers
125 answers
113 answers
108 answers
107 answers
93 answers
92 answers
70 answers
67 answers
65 answers
52 answers
47 answers
40 answers
40 answers
36 answers
29 answers
27 answers
26 answers
21 answers
21 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers

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.

Strategy after playing RESAY

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

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 5.98 bits
7.8% →
TOILE 5.53 bits
6.5% →
TALON 4.99 bits
6.4% →
TOILE 4.37 bits
5.2% →
GROUT 4.84 bits
4.7% →
SPILT 4.85 bits
4.5% →
DIMLY 3.94 bits
4.5% →
ANGLE 4.62 bits
3.9% →
TRAIN 4.07 bits
3.9% →
STILE 4.67 bits

Research on RESAY

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

Optimal play

Opening with RESAY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #2,899 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 RESAY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).