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

REWET

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.4% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈwɛt//ˈɹuːɪt/

Verb

To wet again.

“rewetting drops”

Noun

A gunlock

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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

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

How REWET performs as a guess

Wordle accepts REWET 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 77.3% of games, misses completely in 22.7%, and leaves about 203 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,538 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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First-turn measures

All four describe REWET 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.

4.60 Entropy (bits)
203 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 59% of evaluated openers
1.34 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How REWET 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#8,538 Rank among openers
Opening with REWET solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.73 average. It ranks #8,538 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
65
3 guesses
794
4 guesses
1,221
5 guesses
258
6 guesses
16
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:
ERT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
34%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

REWET can come back 94 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

540 answers
237 answers
226 answers
162 answers
105 answers
104 answers
86 answers
64 answers
60 answers
58 answers
54 answers
47 answers
43 answers
33 answers
31 answers
31 answers
30 answers
27 answers
26 answers
23 answers
20 answers
20 answers
20 answers
20 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1E1W4E1T1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing REWET

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing REWET:

23% chance
Suggested:
SLAIN
10% chance
Suggested:
CROAK
10% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.7%
SLAIN 5.88 bits
10.0%
CROAK 4.94 bits
9.5%
SLANE 5.34 bits
6.8%
SATIN 4.95 bits
4.4%
ANISE 4.55 bits
4.4%
CRAPE 4.53 bits
3.6%
SOILY 3.78 bits
2.7%
SLATE 4.54 bits
2.5%
ALIEN 4.54 bits
2.4%
SORAL 4.26 bits

Research on REWET

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

Optimal play

Opening with REWET, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,397 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 REWET can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.73, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it REEWEHT. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.