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

REZES

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of rez

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

Use REZES in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 89.5% 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 REZES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts REZES 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 75.7% of games, misses completely in 24.3%, and leaves about 251 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,707 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe REZES 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)
251 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.5% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How REZES 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#12,707 Rank among openers
Opening with REZES 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 3.83 average. It ranks #12,707 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
693
4 guesses
1,275
5 guesses
328
6 guesses
21

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ERS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
27%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

REZES can come back 64 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

579 answers
289 answers
261 answers
212 answers
119 answers
105 answers
105 answers
86 answers
84 answers
79 answers
36 answers
35 answers
32 answers
28 answers
26 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
19 answers
17 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1E1Z10E1S1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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

Strategy after playing REZES

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing REZES:

24% chance
Suggested:
TALON
12% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
11% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.3% →
TALON 5.72 bits
12.1% →
TRAIN 5.11 bits
10.9% →
SLANT 5.23 bits
8.9% →
ANILE 5.45 bits
5.0% →
SLANT 4.74 bits
4.4% →
TOILE 3.57 bits
4.4% →
COATE 4.60 bits
3.6% →
DEALT 4.56 bits
3.5% →
OLDEN 4.34 bits
3.3% →
STRAP 4.62 bits

Research on REZES

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

Optimal play

Opening with REZES, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.84 guesses and ranks #12,339 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 REZES can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.83, at or below the proven-optimal 3.84, 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).