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

RIOTY

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

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

Meaning and pronunciation

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

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Use RIOTY in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 94.8% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No 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.

How RIOTY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RIOTY 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 85.4% of games, misses completely in 14.6%, and leaves about 124 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,345 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.

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First-turn measures

All four describe RIOTY 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.

5.09 Entropy (bits)
124 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RIOTY 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#1,345 Rank among openers
Opening with RIOTY left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.61 average. It ranks #1,345 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
63
3 guesses
1,004
4 guesses
1,097
5 guesses
173
6 guesses
16

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
IORT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
38%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

RIOTY can come back 104 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

347 answers
216 answers
160 answers
148 answers
117 answers
109 answers
84 answers
82 answers
82 answers
76 answers
66 answers
66 answers
51 answers
43 answers
43 answers
38 answers
33 answers
33 answers
32 answers
31 answers
30 answers
28 answers
28 answers
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25 answers
21 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1I1O1T1Y4
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing RIOTY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RIOTY:

15% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
9% chance
Suggested:
SAUCE
7% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.6% →
SLANE 6.26 bits
9.1% →
SAUCE 5.35 bits
6.7% →
SLANE 5.67 bits
6.2% →
LEAST 5.55 bits
4.9% →
SLADE 4.66 bits
4.6% →
CLAME 4.89 bits
3.5% →
MORSE 4.09 bits
3.4% →
SLANE 4.71 bits
3.4% →
TREAT 4.68 bits
3.2% →
DRAPE 4.57 bits

Research on RIOTY

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

Optimal play

Opening with RIOTY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #2,586 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.81 guesses at best and is rank #1,781 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).