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REVEL

Yes, REVEL was the Wordle answer on March 10, 2023 (Wordle #629).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛv.əl/

Noun

An instance of merrymaking; a celebration.

Noun

A kind of dance.

Verb

To make merry; to have a happy, lively time.

Verb

To take delight (in something).

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: March 10, 2023 (#629).

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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 REVEL performs as a guess

REVEL 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 77.1% of games, misses completely in 22.9%, and leaves about 228 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,832 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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___L R in the 1st position and L in the 5th position R__E_ R in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _E__L E in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe REVEL 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.

4.40 Entropy (bits)
228 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 45% of evaluated openers
1.55 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How REVEL 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#9,832 Rank among openers
Opening with REVEL 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 3.76 average. It ranks #9,832 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
790
4 guesses
1,192
5 guesses
298
6 guesses
17
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
2 vowels
Common:
ELR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
30%
All gray
23%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E N
A B O V E
R E V E L

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches REVEL in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

REVEL can come back 93 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

544 answers
306 answers
240 answers
202 answers
125 answers
100 answers
93 answers
61 answers
54 answers
49 answers
37 answers
32 answers
31 answers
27 answers
27 answers
27 answers
26 answers
21 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1E1V4E1L1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

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SAINT COAST SABLE SATIN STAIN SCANT

Strategy after playing REVEL

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing REVEL:

23% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
13% chance
Suggested:
COAST
10% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.9% →
SAINT 6.08 bits
12.9% →
COAST 5.49 bits
10.1% →
COAST 5.02 bits
8.5% →
SAINT 5.56 bits
5.3% →
COAST 4.86 bits
4.2% →
SABLE 4.52 bits
3.9% →
SAINT 3.78 bits
2.6% →
SAINT 4.39 bits
2.3% →
SAINT 4.52 bits
2.1% →
SAINT 4.41 bits

Research on REVEL

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

Optimal play

Opening with REVEL, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.78 guesses and ranks #9,519 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.94 guesses at best and is rank #5,094 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.76, 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 first syllable Say it REHVUHL.

Rhymes with LEVEL DEVIL BEVEL

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, REVEL is a kind of celebration or feel.

Synonyms ENJOY delight racket

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
REVEL sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.

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).