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

RESID

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A residual solvent.

Noun

Abbreviation of resident.

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 RESID performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RESID 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 87.4% of games, misses completely in 12.6%, and leaves about 115 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,996 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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.
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Useful pattern pages

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

R___D R in the 1st position and D in the 5th position R__I_ R in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _E__D E in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in RESID.

First-turn measures

All four describe RESID 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.

5.16 Entropy (bits)
115 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 90% of evaluated openers
0.79 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RESID 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#1,996 Rank among openers
Opening with RESID left 2 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 3.62 average. It ranks #1,996 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
77
3 guesses
937
4 guesses
1,153
5 guesses
175
6 guesses
10
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:
EIRS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
26%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

RESID can come back 111 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

299 answers
197 answers
171 answers
160 answers
154 answers
129 answers
100 answers
77 answers
69 answers
66 answers
57 answers
56 answers
48 answers
48 answers
47 answers
40 answers
37 answers
33 answers
26 answers
26 answers
26 answers
23 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1E1S1I1D2
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Try next

COALY ALONE CAROL PATEE SLANT FLINT

Strategy after playing RESID

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RESID:

13% chance
Suggested:
COALY
8% chance
Suggested:
ALONE
7% chance
Suggested:
CAROL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.6% →
COALY 5.74 bits
8.3% →
ALONE 5.30 bits
7.2% →
CAROL 5.10 bits
6.7% →
PATEE 4.81 bits
6.5% →
SLANT 5.20 bits
5.4% →
FLINT 5.00 bits
4.2% →
SHALT 4.97 bits
3.2% →
THALE 4.68 bits
2.9% →
ANILE 4.41 bits
2.8% →
COAST 4.78 bits

Research on RESID

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

Optimal play

Opening with RESID, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.64 guesses and ranks #1,296 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 RESID can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.64, 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 REESTUHD. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, RESID is a kind of oil.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
RESID sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).