ROAST
ROAST is on the solver's possible-answer list and has no appearance in our globally completed Wordle history.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ɹoʊst//ɹəʊst/
- Verb
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To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance.
“to roast meat on a spit”
- Verb
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To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.
“to roast a potato in ashes”
- Noun
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A piece of meat suited to roasting; meat that has been roasted.
“Serve the roast with gravy and mashed potatoes.”
- Noun
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A meal consisting of roast foods.
“Come over this weekend for Sunday roast.”
Alternative forms: rost
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English rosten, a borrowing from Old French rostir (“to roast, to torture with fire”), from Frankish *rōstijan (“to roast, broil”), from Proto-Germanic *raustijaną (“to roast”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hrews- (“to crackle; roast”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian rosterje (“to roast”), Dutch roosten, roosteren (“to roast”), German rösten (“to roast”).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it ROHST.
Rhymes with COAST GHOST TOAST BOAST COSTE
Related meanings
Synonyms guy JOINT KNOCK roasted rib ridicule
Opposites raw
In a sentence
The roast began to roast again.
How was the roast beef?
Use ROAST in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 96.4% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
No completed appearanceNo appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.
The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.
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See what the public sample says →ROAST in Connections
5 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #1040
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ROAST appeared in TEASE (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #1003
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ROAST appeared in COOK WITH DRY HEAT (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #812
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ROAST appeared in CRITICIZE HARSHLY (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #166
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ROAST appeared in CRITICIZE (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #133
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ROAST appeared in BRITISH CUISINE (blue group).
How ROAST performs as a guess
ROAST is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 88.5% of games, misses completely in 11.5%, and leaves about 86 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #62 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.55 guesses in games solved within six turns.
Try your feedback pattern
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Useful pattern pages
If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.
First-turn measures
All four describe ROAST 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How ROAST 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches ROAST in 2 guesses.
Feedback distribution
ROAST can come back 134 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for ROAST; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing ROAST
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to ROAST.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing ROAST:
Research on ROAST
Game-tree analysis and word research for ROAST, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with ROAST, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.59 guesses and ranks #61 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.71 guesses at best and is rank #49 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.55, at or below the proven-optimal 3.59, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- ROAST 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.
- Learner level
- Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A2); among the first words English learners study.
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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS.