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

RHIME

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.4% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Obsolete spelling of rhyme.

Verb

Obsolete spelling of rhyme.

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 RHIME performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RHIME 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 85.1% of games, misses completely in 14.9%, and leaves about 133 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,274 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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 RHIME 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.

5.01 Entropy (bits)
133 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 84% of evaluated openers
0.93 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RHIME 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#2,274 Rank among openers
Opening with RHIME left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.62 average. It ranks #2,274 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
65
3 guesses
971
4 guesses
1,112
5 guesses
190
6 guesses
14
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:
EIR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
36%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

RHIME can come back 101 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

353 answers
197 answers
197 answers
160 answers
158 answers
143 answers
84 answers
82 answers
74 answers
50 answers
44 answers
40 answers
36 answers
36 answers
34 answers
34 answers
33 answers
32 answers
28 answers
27 answers
27 answers
26 answers
25 answers
25 answers
25 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1H4I1M3E1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing RHIME

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RHIME:

15% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
8% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
8% chance
Suggested:
ARSON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.9%
SLANT 5.92 bits
8.3%
SLANT 5.45 bits
8.3%
ARSON 4.96 bits
6.7%
SLEET 4.38 bits
6.7%
SAULT 5.35 bits
6.0%
SATIN 5.01 bits
3.5%
COAST 4.59 bits
3.5%
SLANT 5.08 bits
3.1%
SOUTH 4.87 bits
2.1%
MOGUL 4.68 bits

Research on RHIME

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

Optimal play

Opening with RHIME, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #2,957 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.82 guesses at best and is rank #2,041 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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 RYM. 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.