5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

RIVER

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪvəː/[ˈɹʷɪvəː]/ˈɾɪvəː/

Noun

A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea.

“Occasionally rivers overflow their banks and cause floods.”

Noun

Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.

“a river of blood”

Verb

To improve one’s hand to beat another player on the final card in a poker game.

“Johnny rivered me by drawing that ace of spades.”

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 RIVER performs as a guess

RIVER 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 77.1% of games, misses completely in 22.9%, and leaves about 240 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,122 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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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Useful pattern pages

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

R___R R in the 1st position and R in the 5th position R__E_ R in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _I__R I in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position RI_ER R in the 1st position, I in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and R in the 5th position

Try next

SAULT SLATE COAST SLANT CRATE SALTY
Words starting with R Words ending with R

First-turn measures

4.20 Entropy (bits)
240 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
89.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 33% of evaluated openers
1.74 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How RIVER 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#11,122 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, RIVER ranks #11,122 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
45
3 guesses
746
4 guesses
1,244
5 guesses
297
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EIR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
27%
All gray
23%

Example solver route

R O A T E
P L I E R
A R S E D
R I V E R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches RIVER in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

81 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

541
350
226
197
134
95
93
85
84
69
30
30
27
26
24
23
22
19
16
14
13
12
12
11
10
9
9
9
8
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RIVER:

23% chance
Suggested:
SAULT
15% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
10% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.9% →
SAULT 5.86 bits
14.8% →
SLATE 5.75 bits
9.6% →
COAST 5.46 bits
8.4% →
SLANT 5.57 bits
5.7% →
CRATE 4.85 bits
4.0% →
SLANT 4.72 bits
3.9% →
SALTY 4.12 bits
3.6% →
SLANT 4.52 bits
3.6% →
COAST 3.53 bits
2.9% →
PRINT 4.13 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1I1V4E1R1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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