5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

RIVAL

Yes, RIVAL was the Wordle answer on December 15, 2022 (Wordle #544).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɹaɪvəl/

Noun

A competitor (person, team, company, etc.) with the same goal as another, or striving to attain the same thing. Defeating a rival may be a primary or necessary goal of a competitor.

“Chris is my biggest rival in the 400-metre race.”

Noun

Someone or something with similar claims of quality or distinction as another.

“As a social historian, he has no rival.”

Adjective

Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority.

“rival lovers”

Verb

To oppose or compete with.

“to rival somebody in love”

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: December 15, 2022 (#544).

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

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How RIVAL performs as a guess

RIVAL is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 85.9% of games, misses completely in 14.1%, and leaves about 154 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,359 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

R___L R in the 1st position and L in the 5th position R__A_ R in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _I__L I in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

Try next

STONE TOUSE SCOTE TRACE SOUCE STALE
Words starting with R Words ending with L

First-turn measures

4.75 Entropy (bits)
154 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 68% of evaluated openers
1.20 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How RIVAL 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#6,359 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, RIVAL ranks #6,359 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
72
3 guesses
863
4 guesses
1,152
5 guesses
244
6 guesses
20
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AILR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
24%
All gray
14%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C H I L D
R I V A L

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches RIVAL in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

105 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

333
270
242
163
155
149
123
91
81
58
54
36
35
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29
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RIVAL:

14% chance
Suggested:
STONE
11% chance
Suggested:
TOUSE
10% chance
Suggested:
SCOTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.1% →
STONE 5.91 bits
11.5% →
TOUSE 5.53 bits
10.3% →
SCOTE 5.24 bits
6.9% →
TRACE 4.65 bits
6.6% →
SOUCE 5.19 bits
6.3% →
STONE 5.37 bits
5.2% →
STALE 4.74 bits
3.9% →
CONTE 4.36 bits
3.4% →
TRIPE 4.50 bits
2.5% →
SLICE 4.21 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1I1V4A1L1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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