5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

RESTS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɹɛsts/

Noun

plural of rest

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of rest

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 RESTS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RESTS 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 83.0% of games, misses completely in 17.0%, and leaves about 164 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,683 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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___S R in the 1st position and S in the 5th position R__T_ R in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

COALY ANILE ACORN CADIE TAINT SNAIL
Words starting with R Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.60 Entropy (bits)
164 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.1% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How RESTS 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#10,683 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, RESTS ranks #10,683 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
769
4 guesses
1,229
5 guesses
279
6 guesses
28

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ERST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
22%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

78 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

401
249
214
184
146
129
90
84
69
68
61
52
45
44
43
42
34
31
31
24
24
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10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RESTS:

17% chance
Suggested:
COALY
11% chance
Suggested:
ANILE
9% chance
Suggested:
ACORN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.0% →
COALY 5.71 bits
10.6% →
ANILE 5.56 bits
9.1% →
ACORN 5.00 bits
7.8% →
CADIE 4.36 bits
6.2% →
TAINT 5.09 bits
5.5% →
SNAIL 5.04 bits
3.8% →
PLANE 4.57 bits
3.6% →
LIANE 4.48 bits
2.9% →
ALINE 4.44 bits
2.9% →
SAINT 4.39 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1E1S1T1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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