5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

RESTO

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

As an opener, it rules out about 96.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛstəʊ/

Noun

A restaurant.

Noun

A restoration (of an old car or building, etc.).

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 RESTO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RESTO 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 89.4% of games, misses completely in 10.6%, and leaves about 92 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,463 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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 5th position R__T_ R in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _E__O E in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

Try next

PLAIN ALINE LAIDE COLON SNAIL CAIRN
Words starting with R Words ending with O

First-turn measures

5.37 Entropy (bits)
92 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
96.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 97% of evaluated openers
0.57 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How RESTO 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#1,463 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, RESTO ranks #1,463 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
87
3 guesses
954
4 guesses
1,121
5 guesses
171
6 guesses
19
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:
EORST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
22%
All gray
11%

Feedback distribution

114 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

249
180
140
131
113
111
95
92
74
70
67
58
49
46
44
43
41
41
41
40
36
29
25
24
24
23
23
23
21
21

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RESTO:

11% chance
Suggested:
PLAIN
8% chance
Suggested:
ALINE
6% chance
Suggested:
LAIDE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

10.6% →
PLAIN 5.67 bits
7.6% →
ALINE 5.55 bits
5.9% →
LAIDE 4.44 bits
5.6% →
COLON 4.86 bits
4.8% →
SNAIL 5.02 bits
4.7% →
CAIRN 4.91 bits
4.0% →
APRON 4.28 bits
3.9% →
HAUNT 5.03 bits
3.1% →
LIANE 4.50 bits
3.0% →
PLANE 4.60 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1E1S1T1O1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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