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

RINGY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Having a ringing or reverberating sound.

Adjective

Having rings (circles), or a ring shape; annular.

Noun

Alternative form of ringie (“ring”).

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 RINGY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RINGY 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 78.2% of games, misses completely in 21.8%, and leaves about 218 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,639 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

R___Y R in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position R__G_ R in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _I__Y I in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in RINGY.

First-turn measures

All four describe RINGY 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.

4.52 Entropy (bits)
218 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 53% of evaluated openers
1.42 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RINGY 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#4,639 Rank among openers
Opening with RINGY solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.66 average. It ranks #4,639 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
60
3 guesses
901
4 guesses
1,179
5 guesses
199
6 guesses
15
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
1 vowels
Common:
INR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
30%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

RINGY can come back 103 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

517 answers
373 answers
175 answers
152 answers
148 answers
90 answers
65 answers
56 answers
56 answers
50 answers
46 answers
43 answers
41 answers
38 answers
32 answers
26 answers
26 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1I1N1G2Y4
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

SLATE STOAE SAULT SALET TRICE STANE

Strategy after playing RINGY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RINGY:

22% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
16% chance
Suggested:
STOAE
7% chance
Suggested:
SLATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.8% →
SLATE 6.57 bits
15.7% →
STOAE 5.59 bits
7.4% →
SLATE 5.42 bits
6.4% →
SAULT 4.85 bits
6.2% →
SALET 5.32 bits
3.8% →
TRICE 4.70 bits
2.7% →
STANE 4.66 bits
2.4% →
CLOTE 4.65 bits
2.4% →
TRODE 4.53 bits
2.1% →
TARRE 4.19 bits

Research on RINGY

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

Optimal play

Opening with RINGY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,551 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.86 guesses at best and is rank #3,137 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.71, 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 RIHNGEE. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
RINGY 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).