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

REWED

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈwɛd/

Verb

To wed again.

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

Use REWED in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 87.9% 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 REWED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts REWED 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 71.0% of games, misses completely in 29.0%, and leaves about 289 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,903 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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 REWED 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.

4.24 Entropy (bits)
289 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.9% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How REWED 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#8,903 Rank among openers
Opening with REWED solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.74 average. It ranks #8,903 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
48
3 guesses
800
4 guesses
1,240
5 guesses
253
6 guesses
13

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
29%
All gray
29%

Feedback distribution

REWED can come back 87 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

692 answers
292 answers
272 answers
115 answers
89 answers
74 answers
68 answers
67 answers
54 answers
44 answers
35 answers
33 answers
31 answers
28 answers
27 answers
27 answers
26 answers
25 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
19 answers
17 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1E1W4E1D2
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing REWED

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing REWED:

29% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
12% chance
Suggested:
COAST
11% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.0% →
SLANT 5.95 bits
12.2% →
COAST 5.56 bits
11.4% →
SLANT 5.74 bits
4.8% →
COAST 4.91 bits
3.7% →
SAINT 3.64 bits
3.1% →
DAILY 4.63 bits
2.9% →
SHALT 4.70 bits
2.8% →
SLANT 4.46 bits
2.3% →
SLANT 4.73 bits
1.8% →
ALOUD 4.21 bits

Research on REWED

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

Optimal play

Opening with REWED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #8,029 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 REWED can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.74, 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.

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