5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

RIGGS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of rigg

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 RIGGS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RIGGS 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 75.0% of games, misses completely in 25.0%, and leaves about 286 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,097 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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.

Useful pattern pages

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

R___S R in the 1st position and S in the 5th position R__G_ R in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

OLATE COATE STALE ANILE STOAE TONEY
Words starting with R Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.87 Entropy (bits)
286 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 17% of evaluated openers
2.08 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How RIGGS 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#12,097 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, RIGGS ranks #12,097 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
731
4 guesses
1,240
5 guesses
324
6 guesses
20
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
1 vowels
Common:
IRS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
18%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

65 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

590
386
305
181
114
98
96
83
60
52
42
31
29
25
23
19
17
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12
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RIGGS:

25% chance
Suggested:
OLATE
16% chance
Suggested:
COATE
13% chance
Suggested:
STALE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.0% →
OLATE 5.99 bits
16.4% →
COATE 5.58 bits
12.9% →
STALE 5.72 bits
7.7% →
ANILE 5.32 bits
4.8% →
STOAE 5.04 bits
4.2% →
TONEY 4.39 bits
4.1% →
TRIED 4.83 bits
3.5% →
STILE 4.53 bits
2.5% →
LEANY 4.57 bits
2.2% →
ALONE 4.98 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1I1G2G2S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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