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

REXES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of rex

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 REXES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts REXES 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 75.4% of games, misses completely in 24.6%, and leaves about 252 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,666 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 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.
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Useful pattern pages

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

R___S R in the 1st position and S in the 5th position R__E_ R in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position RE_ES R in the 1st position, E in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe REXES 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.

4.08 Entropy (bits)
252 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 27% of evaluated openers
1.87 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How REXES 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#12,666 Rank among openers
Opening with REXES left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.83 average. It ranks #12,666 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
693
4 guesses
1,268
5 guesses
327
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
2 vowels
Common:
ERS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
27%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

REXES can come back 67 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

583 answers
289 answers
258 answers
212 answers
118 answers
109 answers
103 answers
84 answers
80 answers
78 answers
37 answers
36 answers
32 answers
27 answers
24 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
18 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
7 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1E1X8E1S1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

TONAL TRAIN SLANT ALINE COATE TOILE

Strategy after playing REXES

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing REXES:

25% chance
Suggested:
TONAL
12% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
11% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.6% →
TONAL 5.78 bits
12.2% →
TRAIN 5.13 bits
10.9% →
SLANT 5.24 bits
8.9% →
ALINE 5.39 bits
5.0% →
SLANT 4.74 bits
4.6% →
COATE 4.57 bits
4.3% →
TOILE 3.59 bits
3.5% →
DEALT 4.57 bits
3.4% →
OLDEN 4.34 bits
3.3% →
STRAP 4.63 bits

Research on REXES

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

Optimal play

Opening with REXES, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.85 guesses and ranks #12,518 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 REXES can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.83, at or below the proven-optimal 3.85, 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 REHKSUHZ. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, REXES is a kind of man.

Synonyms king

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
REXES sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).