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RETRY

Yes, RETRY was the Wordle answer on October 25, 2023 (Wordle #858).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /riˈtɹaɪ//ˈriːtɹaɪ/

Verb

To try or attempt again.

“to retry connecting to the Internet after an error”

Verb

To try judicially a second time.

“to retry a case”

Noun

Another attempt.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: October 25, 2023 (#858).

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

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How RETRY performs as a guess

RETRY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 83.4% of games, misses completely in 16.6%, and leaves about 183 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,592 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

R___Y R in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position R__R_ R in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _E__Y E in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in RETRY.

First-turn measures

All four describe RETRY 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.

4.50 Entropy (bits)
183 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 52% of evaluated openers
1.45 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RETRY 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#10,592 Rank among openers
Opening with RETRY left 2 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 3.77 average. It ranks #10,592 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
756
4 guesses
1,229
5 guesses
288
6 guesses
24
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ERT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
34%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

R O A T E
F I C U S
R E T R Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches RETRY in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

RETRY can come back 88 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

393 answers
325 answers
194 answers
189 answers
181 answers
165 answers
122 answers
81 answers
69 answers
45 answers
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11 answers
11 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1E1T1R1Y4
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Try next

SLAIN SLANE SAINT SAICE SADLY ARSON

Strategy after playing RETRY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RETRY:

17% chance
Suggested:
SLAIN
14% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
8% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.6% →
SLAIN 6.15 bits
13.7% →
SLANE 5.43 bits
8.2% →
SAINT 5.47 bits
8.0% →
SAICE 4.53 bits
7.6% →
SADLY 4.27 bits
7.0% →
ARSON 4.80 bits
5.1% →
SLANT 5.06 bits
3.4% →
LIANE 4.46 bits
2.9% →
TRAIT 4.50 bits
1.9% →
COAST 3.92 bits

Research on RETRY

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

Optimal play

Opening with RETRY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.78 guesses and ranks #9,668 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 RETRY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.77, at or below the proven-optimal 3.78, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it REETRY.

Rhymes with APPLY REPLY IMPLY THIGH DECRY

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, RETRY is a kind of try.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
RETRY sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (1.7 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).