5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

RIMED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɹaɪmd/

Adjective

Covered in rime (etymology 1) or (generally) frost.

“The rimed window permitted only shades of the traffic outside.”

Verb

simple past and past participle of rime

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 RIMED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RIMED 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 83.4% of games, misses completely in 16.6%, and leaves about 152 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,597 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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

SLANT SLATE COAST SHALT COALY STANE
Words starting with R Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.94 Entropy (bits)
152 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 81% of evaluated openers
1.00 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How RIMED 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#1,597 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, RIMED ranks #1,597 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
74
3 guesses
964
4 guesses
1,128
5 guesses
173
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:
EIR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
29%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

116 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

391
279
199
157
130
101
75
71
62
61
61
53
43
37
36
26
23
22
22
22
21
20
19
19
19
17
16
16
14
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RIMED:

17% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
12% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
8% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.6% →
SLANT 6.03 bits
11.8% →
SLATE 5.86 bits
8.4% →
COAST 5.64 bits
6.7% →
SLANT 5.66 bits
5.5% →
COAST 4.96 bits
4.3% →
COAST 3.73 bits
3.2% →
SLANT 4.67 bits
3.0% →
SHALT 4.44 bits
2.6% →
COALY 4.83 bits
2.6% →
STANE 4.41 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1I1M3E1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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