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

RICHT

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

No dictionary definition for RICHT is recorded in our sourced data.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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In a sentence

The richt people are sitting in their large gardens.
© tatoeba.org contributor Tom9358 (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use RICHT in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 92.6% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How RICHT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RICHT 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 80.0% of games, misses completely in 20.0%, and leaves about 177 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,073 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 RICHT 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.

4.76 Entropy (bits)
177 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RICHT 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#2,073 Rank among openers
Opening with RICHT left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.62 average. It ranks #2,073 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
995
4 guesses
1,109
5 guesses
176
6 guesses
18

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
IRT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
24%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

RICHT can come back 97 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

477 answers
298 answers
151 answers
143 answers
90 answers
83 answers
82 answers
76 answers
74 answers
71 answers
71 answers
51 answers
50 answers
42 answers
40 answers
38 answers
36 answers
35 answers
30 answers
27 answers
25 answers
22 answers
20 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1I1C3H4T1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing RICHT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RICHT:

20% chance
Suggested:
ALOSE
12% chance
Suggested:
ALOSE
6% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.0% →
ALOSE 6.07 bits
12.5% →
ALOSE 5.26 bits
6.3% →
SLANE 5.73 bits
6.0% →
SAYNE 5.31 bits
3.8% →
SLANE 5.48 bits
3.5% →
SLANE 5.34 bits
3.4% →
SLANE 5.25 bits
3.2% →
SONLY 4.51 bits
3.1% →
AROSE 4.67 bits
3.0% →
SATEM 4.67 bits

Research on RICHT

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

Optimal play

Opening with RICHT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #2,972 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 RICHT can 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
RICHT sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).