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

RESEE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.8% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

To see again or anew.

Noun

An occasion of seeing again or anew.

Alternative forms: re-see

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 RESEE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RESEE 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 75.0% of games, misses completely in 25.0%, and leaves about 243 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,927 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.84 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 RESEE 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.

4.23 Entropy (bits)
243 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 34% of evaluated openers
1.72 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RESEE 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.

3.84 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#12,927 Rank among openers
Opening with RESEE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.84 average. It ranks #12,927 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
680
4 guesses
1,261
5 guesses
345
6 guesses
23
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

3/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
ERS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
43%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

RESEE can come back 74 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

593 answers
291 answers
237 answers
153 answers
105 answers
86 answers
86 answers
85 answers
80 answers
78 answers
66 answers
44 answers
37 answers
36 answers
32 answers
32 answers
26 answers
23 answers
20 answers
19 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1E1S1E1E1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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

Strategy after playing RESEE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RESEE:

25% chance
Suggested:
TALON
12% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
10% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.0%
TALON 5.72 bits
12.3%
TRAIN 5.11 bits
10.0%
SLANT 5.24 bits
6.4%
ANILE 4.68 bits
4.4%
TOILE 3.57 bits
3.6%
DEALT 4.56 bits
3.6%
COAST 4.73 bits
3.6%
ALIEN 4.31 bits
3.4%
SLANT 4.31 bits
3.3%
COATE 3.90 bits

Research on RESEE

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

Optimal play

Opening with RESEE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.84 guesses and ranks #12,243 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 RESEE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.84, at or below the proven-optimal 3.84, 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 second syllable Say it RIHSEE. 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.