RIGID
Yes, RIGID was the Wordle answer on August 4, 2025 (Wordle #1507).
As an opener, it rules out about 84.6% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪd//ˈɹəd͡ʒ.əd/
- Adjective
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Stiff, rather than flexible.
- Adjective
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Having inflexible thoughts, opinions, or beliefs.
- Noun
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An airship whose shape is maintained solely by an internal and/or external rigid structural framework, without using internal gas pressure to stiffen the vehicle (the lifting gas is at atmospheric pressure); typically also equipped with multiple redundant gasbags, unlike other types of airship.
“The rigid could reach the greatest sizes and speeds of any airship, but was expensive to build and bulky to store. Rigids fell out of favor after the R101 and Hindenburg disasters made the type seem unsafe to the travelling public.”
- Noun
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A bicycle with no suspension system.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Wordle status
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Playable guess
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Possible answer
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Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: August 4, 2025 (#1507).
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RIGID 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 67.2% of games, misses completely in 32.8%, and leaves about 365 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,615 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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First-turn measures
All four describe RIGID 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How RIGID 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches RIGID in 2 guesses.
Feedback distribution
RIGID can come back 72 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for RIGID; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Strategy after playing RIGID
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to RIGID.
Quick reference
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Research on RIGID
Game-tree analysis and word research for RIGID, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with RIGID, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,508 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 RIGID can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.75, at or below the proven-optimal 3.80, 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 RIHJUHD.
Related meanings
Synonyms set FIXED strict STIFF intolerant
Opposites moving flexible tolerant adaptable
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- RIGID sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 6 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 10, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 51 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
In a sentence
He was rigid with fear.
There's no need to be so rigid.
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); Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0).