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

RESUE

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

To sue again.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use RESUE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.4% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How RESUE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RESUE 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 82.0% of games, misses completely in 18.0%, and leaves about 157 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,172 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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 RESUE 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.

4.83 Entropy (bits)
157 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.4% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RESUE 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#8,172 Rank among openers
Opening with RESUE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.72 average. It ranks #8,172 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
68
3 guesses
819
4 guesses
1,180
5 guesses
267
6 guesses
19

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
ERSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
34%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

RESUE can come back 98 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

428 answers
233 answers
178 answers
149 answers
140 answers
123 answers
110 answers
82 answers
68 answers
66 answers
65 answers
46 answers
46 answers
36 answers
36 answers
33 answers
30 answers
29 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1E1S1U1E1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Strategy after playing RESUE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RESUE:

18% chance
Suggested:
TALON
10% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
7% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.0% →
TALON 5.85 bits
9.8% →
TRAIN 5.13 bits
7.5% →
SLANT 5.19 bits
6.2% →
BLUNT 4.51 bits
5.9% →
ALIEN 5.19 bits
5.2% →
OATER 4.00 bits
4.6% →
ALINE 4.67 bits
3.4% →
DEALT 4.56 bits
2.9% →
COATE 3.90 bits
2.8% →
SLANT 4.22 bits

Research on RESUE

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

Optimal play

Opening with RESUE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,418 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 RESUE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.72, at or below the proven-optimal 3.74, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).