5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

RIGOR

RIGOR is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 89.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪɡə//ˈɹɪɡɚ//ˈɹəɡə/

Noun

US spelling of rigour.

Noun

Ellipsis of rigor mortis.

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

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 RIGOR performs as a guess

RIGOR is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 74.4% of games, misses completely in 25.6%, and leaves about 246 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,524 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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___R R in the 1st position and R in the 5th position R__O_ R in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _I__R I in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

Try next

SLATE CLOTE TRACE CRATE THALE PRATE
Words starting with R Words ending with R

First-turn measures

4.26 Entropy (bits)
246 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
89.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 36% of evaluated openers
1.69 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How RIGOR 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#8,524 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, RIGOR ranks #8,524 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
823
4 guesses
1,214
5 guesses
260
6 guesses
10
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:
IOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
25%
All gray
26%

Example solver route

R O A T E
R H I N O
R I G O R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches RIGOR in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

82 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

603
248
228
220
107
103
84
71
63
60
40
38
37
37
34
33
24
20
20
18
17
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12
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10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RIGOR:

26% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
11% chance
Suggested:
CLOTE
10% chance
Suggested:
TRACE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.6% →
SLATE 6.41 bits
10.5% →
CLOTE 5.18 bits
9.7% →
TRACE 5.62 bits
9.3% →
SLATE 5.53 bits
4.5% →
CRATE 4.57 bits
4.4% →
THALE 4.20 bits
3.6% →
PRATE 4.55 bits
3.0% →
SAULT 4.22 bits
2.7% →
SALUE 5.07 bits
2.5% →
SLANT 4.57 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1I1G2O1R1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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