RETRO
Yes, RETRO was the Wordle answer on June 27, 2022 (Wordle #373).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛt.ɹəʊ//ˈɹɛt.ɹoʊ//ˈɹet.ɹəʉ/
- Adjective
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Of, or relating to, the past, past times, or the way things were.
- Adjective
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Affecting things past; retroactive, ex post facto.
- Noun
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Past fashions or trends.
- Noun
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Abbreviation of retrorocket.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
Borrowed from French rétro, ultimately from Latin retro.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it REHTROH.
Rhymes with METRO
Related meanings
Synonyms retrospective
Opposites prospective
In a sentence
Where can I find old retro fonts?
The retro feel of this cafe is a hit with young people.
Use RETRO in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 93.5% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: June 27, 2022 (#373).
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1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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RETRO appeared in PREFIXES (blue group).
How RETRO performs as a guess
RETRO is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 83.6% of games, misses completely in 16.4%, and leaves about 154 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,302 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe RETRO 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How RETRO 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches RETRO in 2 guesses.
Feedback distribution
RETRO can come back 93 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for RETRO; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
Try next
Strategy after playing RETRO
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to RETRO.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing RETRO:
Research on RETRO
Game-tree analysis and word research for RETRO, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with RETRO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #7,829 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 RETRO can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.73, at or below the proven-optimal 3.75, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- RETRO sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 5 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.9 of 5).
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).