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

RHYMY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 81.9% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Alternative form of rhymey.

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 RHYMY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RHYMY 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 65.7% of games, misses completely in 34.3%, and leaves about 430 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,858 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.89 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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First-turn measures

All four describe RHYMY 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.

3.35 Entropy (bits)
430 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
81.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 4% of evaluated openers
2.60 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RHYMY 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.

3.89 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#13,858 Rank among openers
Opening with RHYMY solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.89 average. It ranks #13,858 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
26
3 guesses
641
4 guesses
1,282
5 guesses
375
6 guesses
30
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
0 vowels
Common:
R

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
66%
Green tile
28%
All gray
34%

Feedback distribution

RHYMY can come back 50 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

815 answers
508 answers
208 answers
130 answers
116 answers
90 answers
68 answers
58 answers
49 answers
37 answers
36 answers
32 answers
29 answers
22 answers
18 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
11 answers
9 answers
9 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1H4Y4M3Y4
Total: 16 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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

Strategy after playing RHYMY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RHYMY:

34% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
21% chance
Suggested:
IRATE
9% chance
Suggested:
SALET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

34.3%
SLANE 6.33 bits
21.4%
IRATE 5.28 bits
8.8%
SALET 4.76 bits
5.5%
COATE 5.38 bits
4.9%
MOILE 5.32 bits
3.8%
SKATE 5.12 bits
2.9%
AINEE 4.44 bits
2.4%
TARRE 4.26 bits
2.1%
SATER 4.51 bits
1.6%
COATE 4.68 bits

Research on RHYMY

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

Optimal play

Opening with RHYMY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.91 guesses and ranks #14,013 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.08 guesses at best and is rank #6,983 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.89, at or below the proven-optimal 3.91, 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 RYMEE. 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.