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

RESOD

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.2% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

To sod again; to cover (a lawn) with fresh sod.

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 RESOD performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RESOD 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 87.0% of games, misses completely in 13.0%, and leaves about 115 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,923 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe RESOD 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.

5.15 Entropy (bits)
115 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 90% of evaluated openers
0.80 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RESOD 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
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#1,923 Rank among openers
Opening with RESOD left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.62 average. It ranks #1,923 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
67
3 guesses
955
4 guesses
1,151
5 guesses
168
6 guesses
11
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:
EORS

Feedback chances

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

Feedback distribution

RESOD can come back 104 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

308 answers
207 answers
156 answers
154 answers
142 answers
129 answers
95 answers
78 answers
70 answers
62 answers
62 answers
48 answers
44 answers
42 answers
41 answers
38 answers
38 answers
35 answers
35 answers
32 answers
30 answers
29 answers
28 answers
27 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1E1S1O1D2
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Strategy after playing RESOD

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RESOD:

13% chance
Suggested:
PAINT
9% chance
Suggested:
ALINE
7% chance
Suggested:
PATEE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.0%
PAINT 5.76 bits
8.7%
ALINE 5.38 bits
6.6%
PATEE 4.83 bits
6.5%
SLANT 5.30 bits
6.0%
LOATH 4.92 bits
5.4%
TRAIL 5.12 bits
4.0%
PLATE 4.94 bits
3.3%
THALE 4.65 bits
2.9%
ACORN 4.35 bits
2.6%
CLONE 4.32 bits

Research on RESOD

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

Optimal play

Opening with RESOD, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #900 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 RESOD can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.63, 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 REHSUHD. 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.