Possible answer Not used yet A tier opener

ROAST

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

As an opener, it rules out about 96.4% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɹoʊst//ɹəʊst/

Verb

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

To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.

“to roast a potato in ashes”

Noun

A piece of meat suited to roasting; meat that has been roasted.

“Serve the roast with gravy and mashed potatoes.”

Noun

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.

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 ROAST performs as a guess

ROAST 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 88.5% of games, misses completely in 11.5%, and leaves about 85 possible answers on average.

In the current bounded six-turn policy, it ranks #7 of 182 evaluated openers; exact misses rank first, then average guesses among wins.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #62 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.55 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.

First-turn measures

5.65 Entropy (bits)
85 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
96.4% Avg ruled out
In the top 1% for first-turn entropy
0.30 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 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.

3.55 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#62 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ROAST ranks #62 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
77
3 guesses
1,085
4 guesses
1,028
5 guesses
148
6 guesses
14
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:
AORST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
40%
All gray
12%

Example solver route

R O A T E
R O A S T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches ROAST in 2 guesses.

Feedback distribution

134 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

270
167
157
96
92
78
75
74
70
66
61
52
44
39
39
39
37
37
33
32
31
30
29
27
25
25
24
23
23
22

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ROAST:

11% chance
Suggested:
CLINE
7% chance
Suggested:
CLINE
7% chance
Suggested:
CRIED

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.5%
CLINE 5.98 bits
7.1%
CLINE 5.24 bits
6.7%
CRIED 5.09 bits
4.1%
CLINE 5.11 bits
3.9%
CLONE 4.22 bits
3.3%
CLINE 5.21 bits
3.2%
TITHE 5.14 bits
3.1%
MAILE 4.19 bits
3.0%
DRICE 4.23 bits
2.8%
CLINE 4.67 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1O1A1S1T1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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