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

REWIN

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

To win again or anew, to win back.

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

Use REWIN in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.7% 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 REWIN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts REWIN 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 84.1% of games, misses completely in 15.9%, and leaves about 151 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,786 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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 REWIN 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.

4.85 Entropy (bits)
151 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.7% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How REWIN 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#4,786 Rank among openers
Opening with REWIN left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.67 average. It ranks #4,786 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
64
3 guesses
909
4 guesses
1,144
5 guesses
220
6 guesses
16

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EINR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
24%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

REWIN can come back 104 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

378 answers
253 answers
202 answers
197 answers
127 answers
125 answers
93 answers
74 answers
66 answers
64 answers
63 answers
55 answers
48 answers
42 answers
29 answers
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13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1E1W4I1N1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing REWIN

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing REWIN:

16% chance
Suggested:
SAULT
11% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
8% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.9% →
SAULT 5.97 bits
10.6% →
SLATE 5.77 bits
8.5% →
COAST 5.55 bits
8.3% →
PATEE 4.84 bits
5.3% →
COAST 5.14 bits
5.2% →
SHALT 5.02 bits
3.9% →
SHALT 4.80 bits
3.1% →
SIDLE 4.72 bits
2.8% →
COAST 4.90 bits
2.7% →
SLATY 4.21 bits

Research on REWIN

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

Optimal play

Opening with REWIN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,292 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 REWIN can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.71, 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).