5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

RICER

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A person, especially a Native American, who cultivates and harvests rice.

Noun

A utensil used to extrude soft foods (especially, cooked potato) through holes about the diameter of a grain of rice.

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 RICER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RICER 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 82.1% of games, misses completely in 17.9%, and leaves about 173 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,512 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

Useful pattern pages

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

R___R R in the 1st position and R in the 5th position R__E_ R in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _I__R I in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position RI_ER R in the 1st position, I in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and R in the 5th position

Try next

SAULT SLATE SLANT ORATE SALTY SLANE
Words starting with R Words ending with R

First-turn measures

4.63 Entropy (bits)
173 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 61% of evaluated openers
1.32 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How RICER 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#7,512 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, RICER ranks #7,512 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
840
4 guesses
1,194
5 guesses
235
6 guesses
22
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EIR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
28%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

95 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

423
309
177
154
121
110
97
91
87
82
62
60
53
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31
26
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RICER:

18% chance
Suggested:
SAULT
13% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
8% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.9% →
SAULT 5.96 bits
13.1% →
SLATE 5.81 bits
7.5% →
SLANT 5.09 bits
6.5% →
SLANT 5.67 bits
5.1% →
ORATE 4.59 bits
4.7% →
SAULT 5.00 bits
4.1% →
SLANT 4.64 bits
3.9% →
SALTY 4.34 bits
3.7% →
SAULT 3.69 bits
3.5% →
SLANE 4.58 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1I1C3E1R1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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