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RISEN

Yes, RISEN was the Wordle answer on March 23, 2024 (Wordle #1008).

As an opener, it rules out about 96.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪ.zən/

Verb

past participle of rise

Adjective

Having risen.

“the scent of newly risen bread”

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: March 23, 2024 (#1008).

See the full page for that puzzle: March 23, 2024 (#1008).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How RISEN performs as a guess

RISEN is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 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 95 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #792 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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.

R___N R in the 1st position and N in the 5th position R__E_ R in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _I__N I in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe RISEN 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.

5.42 Entropy (bits)
95 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
96.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 97% of evaluated openers
0.53 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RISEN 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#792 Rank among openers
Opening with RISEN left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after 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 #792 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
91
3 guesses
971
4 guesses
1,106
5 guesses
169
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
2 vowels
Common:
EINRS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
30%
All gray
11%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E N
R I S E N

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches RISEN in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

RISEN can come back 125 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

252 answers
194 answers
164 answers
127 answers
115 answers
97 answers
96 answers
95 answers
83 answers
62 answers
62 answers
54 answers
52 answers
50 answers
48 answers
47 answers
39 answers
34 answers
34 answers
26 answers
25 answers
25 answers
23 answers
23 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1I1S1E1N1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Try next

MOULT DEALT CAROL SHALT TRACE COUNT

Strategy after playing RISEN

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RISEN:

11% chance
Suggested:
MOULT
8% chance
Suggested:
DEALT
7% chance
Suggested:
CAROL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

10.6% →
MOULT 5.56 bits
8.2% →
DEALT 5.59 bits
6.9% →
CAROL 5.09 bits
5.3% →
SHALT 5.33 bits
4.8% →
TRACE 4.90 bits
4.1% →
SHALT 5.05 bits
4.0% →
COUNT 4.68 bits
4.0% →
OLATE 3.48 bits
3.5% →
CLAIM 4.97 bits
2.6% →
FILTH 3.79 bits

Research on RISEN

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

Optimal play

Opening with RISEN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.62 guesses and ranks #527 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 RISEN can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.59, at or below the proven-optimal 3.62, 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 RIHZUHN.

Rhymes with KISAN

Related meanings

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Opposites down

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
RISEN sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 7 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 sight (3.4 of 5).

In a sentence

The sun has just risen.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
The cost of living has risen.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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).