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

RHEAS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɹiːəz/

Noun

plural of rhea

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 RHEAS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RHEAS 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 89.6% of games, misses completely in 10.4%, and leaves about 106 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,107 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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__A_ R in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _H__S H in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe RHEAS 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.

5.23 Entropy (bits)
106 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 93% of evaluated openers
0.72 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RHEAS 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#4,107 Rank among openers
Opening with RHEAS left 1 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 3.65 average. It ranks #4,107 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
69
3 guesses
934
4 guesses
1,107
5 guesses
226
6 guesses
17
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AERS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
90%
Green tile
23%
All gray
10%

Feedback distribution

RHEAS can come back 109 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

248 answers
207 answers
179 answers
161 answers
126 answers
119 answers
115 answers
97 answers
75 answers
71 answers
68 answers
65 answers
44 answers
44 answers
38 answers
36 answers
35 answers
34 answers
31 answers
26 answers
25 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1H4E1A1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Try next

LOGIN TOILE TALON DROIT SPILT ALANE

Strategy after playing RHEAS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RHEAS:

10% chance
Suggested:
LOGIN
9% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
8% chance
Suggested:
TALON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

10.4% →
LOGIN 5.45 bits
8.7% →
TOILE 5.39 bits
7.5% →
TALON 5.03 bits
6.8% →
TOILE 4.27 bits
5.3% →
DROIT 4.71 bits
5.0% →
SPILT 4.99 bits
4.8% →
ALANE 4.54 bits
4.1% →
TRAIN 4.12 bits
3.2% →
SLANT 4.73 bits
3.0% →
GLACE 3.82 bits

Research on RHEAS

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

Optimal play

Opening with RHEAS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #4,026 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 RHEAS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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

One syllable Say it REEZ. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, RHEAS is a kind of bird.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
RHEAS 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).