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RIGHT

Yes, RIGHT was the Wordle answer on September 24, 2023 (Wordle #827).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɹaɪt/[ˈɹaɪt]/ˈɹɑjt/

Adjective

Designating the side of the body which is positioned to the east if one is facing north, the side on which the heart is not located in most humans. This arrow points to the reader's right: →

“After the accident, her right leg was slightly shorter than her left.”

Adjective

Clockwise, particularly when describing a change in direction or orientation.

“The road up ahead contains a right bend.”

Adverb

On the right side.

Adverb

Towards the right side.

Alternative forms: reight, reet, rite, righte

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: September 24, 2023 (#827).

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

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How RIGHT performs as a guess

RIGHT 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 79.7% of games, misses completely in 20.3%, and leaves about 188 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,846 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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___T R in the 1st position and T in the 5th position R__H_ R in the 1st position and H in the 4th position _I__T I in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe RIGHT 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.

4.62 Entropy (bits)
188 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 60% of evaluated openers
1.33 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RIGHT 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#3,846 Rank among openers
Opening with RIGHT solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.65 average. It ranks #3,846 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
924
4 guesses
1,181
5 guesses
183
6 guesses
13
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:
IRT

Feedback chances

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

Example solver route

R O A T E
R I G H T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches RIGHT in 2 guesses.

Feedback distribution

RIGHT can come back 93 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

483 answers
320 answers
152 answers
141 answers
124 answers
95 answers
77 answers
76 answers
73 answers
73 answers
52 answers
50 answers
48 answers
46 answers
41 answers
40 answers
38 answers
34 answers
28 answers
27 answers
25 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1I1G2H4T1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SLANE CANOE TASTE CLOSE ALONE TASER

Strategy after playing RIGHT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RIGHT:

20% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
13% chance
Suggested:
CANOE
6% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.3% →
SLANE 6.20 bits
13.5% →
CANOE 5.31 bits
6.4% →
SLANE 5.43 bits
5.9% →
TASTE 5.36 bits
5.2% →
CLOSE 5.39 bits
4.0% →
SLANE 5.30 bits
3.2% →
ALONE 5.19 bits
3.2% →
TASER 4.54 bits
3.1% →
SONLY 4.42 bits
3.1% →
PRIED 4.47 bits

Research on RIGHT

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

Optimal play

Opening with RIGHT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,528 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 RIGHT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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 RYT.

Rhymes with MIGHT NIGHT WHITE LIGHT QUITE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, RIGHT is a kind of abstract or place.

Synonyms all one good WHOLE completely powerful

Opposites left WRONG center wrongly

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
RIGHT sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 912 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A1); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 44 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (2.8 of 5).

In a sentence

It is to the right.
© tatoeba.org contributor Cabo (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Is it the right time?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (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).