5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

RISKY

RISKY is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 91.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪski/

Adjective

Dangerous; involving risks.

“Investing in this start-up company could be risky.”

Adjective

Misspelling of risqué.

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

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 RISKY performs as a guess

RISKY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,359 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 80.3% of games, misses completely in 19.7%, and leaves about 207 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,940 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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.

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__K_ R in the 1st position and K in the 4th position _I__Y I in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

OLATE COATE STALE ANILE ALONE STRAE
Words starting with R Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

4.36 Entropy (bits)
207 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.2% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How RISKY 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#8,940 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, RISKY ranks #8,940 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
846
4 guesses
1,180
5 guesses
271
6 guesses
18

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
IRS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
28%
All gray
20%

Example solver route

R O A T E
R I G I D
R I S K Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches RISKY in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

75 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

464
345
219
189
148
111
90
87
68
50
49
48
32
31
29
28
28
24
22
18
15
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RISKY:

20% chance
Suggested:
OLATE
15% chance
Suggested:
COATE
9% chance
Suggested:
STALE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.7% →
OLATE 6.03 bits
14.6% →
COATE 5.53 bits
9.3% →
STALE 5.75 bits
8.0% →
ANILE 5.39 bits
6.3% →
ALONE 4.58 bits
4.7% →
STRAE 4.83 bits
3.8% →
TRIED 4.89 bits
3.7% →
CLOTE 4.56 bits
2.9% →
LEANT 4.61 bits
2.1% →
LATER 4.37 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1I1S1K5Y4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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