Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier for first-turn info

RIMON

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

No dictionary definition for RIMON is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 93.0% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 RIMON performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RIMON 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 81.7% of games, misses completely in 18.3%, and leaves about 165 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,667 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe RIMON 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.

4.83 Entropy (bits)
165 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 73% of evaluated openers
1.12 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RIMON 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
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#1,667 Rank among openers
Opening with RIMON left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.61 average. It ranks #1,667 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
66
3 guesses
988
4 guesses
1,104
5 guesses
178
6 guesses
16
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
2 vowels
Common:
INOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
23%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

RIMON can come back 111 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

434 answers
277 answers
182 answers
142 answers
137 answers
123 answers
86 answers
80 answers
72 answers
70 answers
52 answers
40 answers
36 answers
36 answers
34 answers
30 answers
28 answers
27 answers
27 answers
25 answers
23 answers
20 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1I1M3O1N1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing RIMON

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RIMON:

18% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
12% chance
Suggested:
TEASE
8% chance
Suggested:
STOLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.3%
SLATE 6.54 bits
11.7%
TEASE 5.54 bits
7.7%
STOLE 5.16 bits
6.0%
STALE 5.45 bits
5.8%
LEAST 5.32 bits
5.2%
COATE 4.58 bits
3.6%
TRAPE 4.76 bits
3.4%
SATED 4.30 bits
3.0%
STAGE 4.31 bits
2.9%
SLATE 5.20 bits

Research on RIMON

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

Optimal play

Opening with RIMON, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #3,073 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.78 guesses at best and is rank #979 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.61, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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 RIHMUHN. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
RIMON sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).