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RHYME

Yes, RHYME was the Wordle answer on August 4, 2022 (Wordle #411).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɹaɪm//ɹɑem/[ɹɑe̯m]

Noun

Rhyming verse (poetic form).

“Many editors say they don’t want stories written in rhyme these days.”

Noun

A thought expressed in verse; a verse; a poem; a tale told in verse.

“Tennyson’s rhymes”

Verb

To compose or treat in verse; versify.

Verb

To place (a word or words) in such a way as to produce a rhyme or an approximation thereof.

Alternative forms: rime, rhime

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: August 4, 2022 (#411).

See the full page for that puzzle: August 4, 2022 (#411).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How RHYME performs as a guess

RHYME is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 83.4% of games, misses completely in 16.6%, and leaves about 167 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,781 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

R___E R in the 1st position and E in the 5th position R__M_ R in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _H__E H in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe RHYME 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.

4.60 Entropy (bits)
167 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 58% of evaluated openers
1.35 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RHYME 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#6,781 Rank among openers
Opening with RHYME solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.70 average. It ranks #6,781 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
886
4 guesses
1,178
5 guesses
223
6 guesses
22
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
1 vowels
Common:
ER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
30%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

R O A T E
D U L S E
R H Y M E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches RHYME in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

RHYME can come back 78 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

393 answers
228 answers
220 answers
202 answers
177 answers
175 answers
105 answers
83 answers
58 answers
46 answers
45 answers
45 answers
38 answers
35 answers
33 answers
26 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
21 answers
18 answers
18 answers
16 answers
14 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1H4Y4M3E1
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

SAINT TRAIN SLANT SAULT STAIR COAST

Strategy after playing RHYME

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RHYME:

17% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
10% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
9% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.6% →
SAINT 6.23 bits
9.6% →
TRAIN 5.32 bits
9.3% →
SLANT 5.27 bits
8.5% →
SLANT 5.39 bits
7.5% →
SAULT 4.76 bits
7.4% →
STAIR 4.12 bits
4.4% →
COAST 4.49 bits
3.5% →
COAST 4.75 bits
2.4% →
SAINT 4.81 bits
1.9% →
LEANT 3.89 bits

Research on RHYME

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

Optimal play

Opening with RHYME, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #7,010 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.92 guesses at best and is rank #4,568 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.70, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, 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.

Rhymes with CRIME PRIME CLIMB SLIME CHIME

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, RHYME is a kind of form or poem.

Synonyms VERSE

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
RHYME sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 4 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 38 of 100. Raters found it difficult to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (4.5 of 5).

In a sentence

There's no rhyme or reason to that plan.
© tatoeba.org contributor _undertoad (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Rhyme has value in poetry.
© tatoeba.org contributor Igider (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).