RINGS
RINGS is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ɹɪŋz/
- Noun
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plural of ring
- Noun
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A gymnastics apparatus and discipline consisting of two rings suspended from a bar.
- Verb
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third-person singular simple present indicative of ring
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
How it sounds
One syllable Say it RIHNGZ.
Rhymes with WINGS KINGS SINGS PINGS DINGS
In a sentence
How many rings do you have?
Would you show me some rings?
Use RINGS in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 92.5% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
NoThe solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.
Past Wordle answer
No completed appearanceNo appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.
The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.
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See what the public sample says →RINGS in Connections
6 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . Showing the 5 most recent. A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #1203
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RINGS appeared in FEATURES OF WOOD (blue group).
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· Puzzle #1142
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RINGS appeared in GYMNASTICS APPARATUS (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #995
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RINGS appeared in GYMNASTICS APPARATUS (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #765
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RINGS appeared in GYMNASTICS APPARATUS (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #447
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RINGS appeared in TREE FEATURES (green group).
How RINGS performs as a guess
Wordle accepts RINGS 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 82.3% of games, misses completely in 17.7%, and leaves about 180 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,880 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.
First-turn measures
All four describe RINGS 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 RINGS 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
Feedback distribution
RINGS can come back 98 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 RINGS; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing RINGS
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to RINGS.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing RINGS:
Research on RINGS
Game-tree analysis and word research for RINGS, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with RINGS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,458 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.79 guesses at best and is rank #1,226 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- RINGS sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 21 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.1 of 5).
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).