5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

RESOW

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

To sow again, to plant seed where it has already been planted.

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 RESOW performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RESOW 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 85.5% of games, misses completely in 14.5%, and leaves about 138 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,580 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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__O_ R in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _E__W E in the 2nd position and W in the 5th position

Try next

PAINT ALINE IRATE TONAL SLANT TRAIN
Words starting with R Words ending with W

First-turn measures

4.84 Entropy (bits)
138 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 74% of evaluated openers
1.11 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How RESOW 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#6,580 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, RESOW ranks #6,580 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
65
3 guesses
861
4 guesses
1,175
5 guesses
230
6 guesses
22
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:
EORS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
21%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

94 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

342
235
180
168
148
143
99
99
73
67
59
46
45
45
41
38
35
33
30
28
22
22
21
19
19
18
18
16
15
15

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RESOW:

15% chance
Suggested:
PAINT
10% chance
Suggested:
ALINE
8% chance
Suggested:
IRATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.5% →
PAINT 5.73 bits
10.0% →
ALINE 5.47 bits
7.6% →
IRATE 4.43 bits
7.1% →
TONAL 5.03 bits
6.3% →
SLANT 5.34 bits
6.1% →
TRAIN 5.14 bits
4.2% →
PLATE 4.90 bits
4.2% →
BLATE 4.59 bits
3.1% →
ACORN 4.44 bits
2.8% →
CLONE 4.37 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1E1S1O1W4
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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