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

RIONE

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

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

As an opener, it rules out about 96.5% 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 RIONE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RIONE 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 90.6% of games, misses completely in 9.4%, and leaves about 82 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #683 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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 RIONE 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.

5.58 Entropy (bits)
82 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
96.5% Avg ruled out
In the top 1% for first-turn entropy
0.36 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RIONE 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#683 Rank among openers
Opening with RIONE solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.59 average. It ranks #683 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
74
3 guesses
1,027
4 guesses
1,064
5 guesses
168
6 guesses
21
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
3 vowels
Common:
EINOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
91%
Green tile
42%
All gray
9%

Feedback distribution

RIONE can come back 123 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

224 answers
166 answers
143 answers
130 answers
118 answers
103 answers
101 answers
77 answers
68 answers
62 answers
57 answers
55 answers
49 answers
47 answers
46 answers
43 answers
38 answers
35 answers
32 answers
31 answers
31 answers
31 answers
30 answers
30 answers
29 answers
24 answers
24 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1I1O1N1E1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Strategy after playing RIONE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RIONE:

9% chance
Suggested:
SLATY
7% chance
Suggested:
LEAST
6% chance
Suggested:
SETAE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

9.4%
SLATY 5.64 bits
7.0%
LEAST 5.39 bits
6.0%
SETAE 4.40 bits
5.5%
SAULT 5.33 bits
5.0%
SMART 5.13 bits
4.3%
SALTY 4.91 bits
4.3%
SAULT 5.24 bits
3.2%
SHALT 4.59 bits
2.9%
SALTY 4.21 bits
2.6%
TARRE 4.11 bits

Research on RIONE

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

Optimal play

Opening with RIONE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.60 guesses and ranks #229 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 RIONE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.59, 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.

How it sounds

Three syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it REEOHNEE. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
RIONE 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).