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/
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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.
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
Not used yetNo past answer date found.
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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.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches ROAST in 2 guesses.
Feedback distribution
134 possible patterns. Top outcomes:
Quick reference
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Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for ROAST; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
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