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RIVET

Yes, RIVET was the Wordle answer on February 1, 2025 (Wordle #1323).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪvət/

Noun

A cylindrical mechanical fastener which is supplied with a factory head at one end and is used to attach multiple parts together by passing its bucktail through a hole and upsetting its end to form a field head.

Noun

Any fixed point or certain basis.

Verb

To attach or fasten parts by using rivets.

Verb

To install rivets (see Usage notes).

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: February 1, 2025 (#1323).

See the full page for that puzzle: February 1, 2025 (#1323).

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

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How RIVET performs as a guess

RIVET 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 84.0% of games, misses completely in 16.0%, and leaves about 137 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,353 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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___T R in the 1st position and T in the 5th position R__E_ R in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _I__T I in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe RIVET 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.

5.03 Entropy (bits)
137 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 85% of evaluated openers
0.92 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RIVET 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#5,353 Rank among openers
Opening with RIVET left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.68 average. It ranks #5,353 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
73
3 guesses
869
4 guesses
1,171
5 guesses
219
6 guesses
18
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:
EIRT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
33%
All gray
16%

Example solver route

R O A T E
F I C U S
R I V E T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches RIVET in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

RIVET can come back 107 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

381 answers
234 answers
191 answers
129 answers
117 answers
109 answers
87 answers
77 answers
64 answers
63 answers
55 answers
55 answers
55 answers
46 answers
40 answers
37 answers
33 answers
33 answers
26 answers
26 answers
26 answers
24 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
20 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1I1V4E1T1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SALON SLANE ACORN SLAIN CRARE SOUTH

Strategy after playing RIVET

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RIVET:

16% chance
Suggested:
SALON
10% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
8% chance
Suggested:
ACORN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.0% →
SALON 5.73 bits
9.9% →
SLANE 5.45 bits
8.0% →
ACORN 5.16 bits
5.4% →
SLAIN 5.20 bits
4.9% →
CRARE 4.60 bits
4.6% →
SOUTH 4.83 bits
3.7% →
SOLAR 3.70 bits
3.2% →
TASTE 4.85 bits
2.7% →
ALONE 4.18 bits
2.7% →
SLANE 4.53 bits

Research on RIVET

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

Optimal play

Opening with RIVET, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,721 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 RIVET can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, 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 RIHVUHT.

Rhymes with PIVOT CIVET

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, RIVET is a kind of decoration or pin.

Synonyms center FOCUS centre concentrate stud pore

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
RIVET sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.6 of 5).

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).