RINSE
Yes, RINSE was the Wordle answer on September 14, 2026 (Wordle #1913).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ɹɪns//ɹɛns/
- Verb
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To wash (something) quickly using water and no soap.
“You'd better rinse that stain before putting the shirt in the washing machine.”
- Verb
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To remove soap from (something) using water.
“Rinse the dishes after you wash them.”
- Noun
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The action of rinsing.
“I'll just give this knife a quick rinse.”
- Noun
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A liquid used to rinse, now particularly a hair dye.
“I had a henna rinse yesterday.”
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English rinsen, rincen, rencen (“to rinse”), from Old French rincier, reinser, Old Northern French raïncer (“to rinse, cleanse”). Of contested origin. Possibly from Old Norse hreinsa, from Proto-Germanic *hrainisōną (“to clean, purify”), from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to separate, divide”). Alternatively from a dissimilation of Old French recincier, from Latin recentare (“to make fresh”).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it RIHNS.
Related meanings
Synonyms wash
In a sentence
Where did you rinse them?
I have to rinse my mouth.
Use RINSE in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 96.3% 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
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: September 14, 2026 (#1913).
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1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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RINSE appeared in DISHWASHER CYCLES (purple group).
How RINSE performs as a guess
RINSE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 89.4% of games, misses completely in 10.6%, and leaves about 87 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #394 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe RINSE 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 RINSE 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
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches RINSE in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
RINSE can come back 129 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 RINSE; 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 RINSE
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to RINSE.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing RINSE:
Research on RINSE
Game-tree analysis and word research for RINSE, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with RINSE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.60 guesses and ranks #196 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with RINSE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.58, at or below the proven-optimal 3.60, 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
- RINSE sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 3 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with touch (3.5 of 5).
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).