5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

RILED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of rile

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 RILED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RILED 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 87.7% of games, misses completely in 12.3%, and leaves about 112 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #936 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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___D R in the 1st position and D in the 5th position R__E_ R in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _I__D I in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

COAST TEASE SAINT SLATE SCANT BOAST
Words starting with R Words ending with D

First-turn measures

5.28 Entropy (bits)
112 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 94% of evaluated openers
0.67 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How RILED 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#936 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, RILED ranks #936 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
89
3 guesses
993
4 guesses
1,057
5 guesses
199
6 guesses
13
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EILR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
31%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

131 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

289
202
191
150
130
119
106
94
62
56
54
54
52
42
40
36
33
31
25
23
22
21
18
18
18
18
15
15
15
15

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RILED:

12% chance
Suggested:
COAST
9% chance
Suggested:
COAST
8% chance
Suggested:
TEASE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.3% →
COAST 5.86 bits
8.6% →
COAST 5.64 bits
8.1% →
TEASE 5.56 bits
6.4% →
COAST 5.26 bits
5.5% →
COAST 5.00 bits
5.0% →
SAINT 5.47 bits
4.5% →
SLATE 4.84 bits
4.0% →
COAST 3.69 bits
2.6% →
COAST 4.13 bits
2.4% →
SAINT 4.59 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1I1L1E1D2
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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