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Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier for first-turn info

ROBBO

ROBBO is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.

As an opener, it rules out about 78.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Proper noun

A diminutive of the given name Robert or Robin.

Proper noun

A nickname from the surname Roberts, Robertson, Robbins or Robinson.

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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

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 ROBBO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ROBBO as a guess, but the solver does not list it as a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 59.4% of games, misses completely in 40.6%, and leaves about 515 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,411 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.94 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___O R in the 1st position and O in the 5th position R__B_ R in the 1st position and B in the 4th position _O__O O in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe ROBBO 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.

3.17 Entropy (bits)
515 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
78.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 3% of evaluated openers
2.77 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ROBBO 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.

3.94 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#14,411 Rank among openers
Opening with ROBBO left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.94 average. It ranks #14,411 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
38
3 guesses
560
4 guesses
1,285
5 guesses
434
6 guesses
34
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

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
OR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
59%
Green tile
20%
All gray
41%

Feedback distribution

ROBBO can come back 60 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

964 answers
459 answers
156 answers
149 answers
120 answers
94 answers
70 answers
58 answers
44 answers
26 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
18 answers
14 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers
3 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1O1B3B3O1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

SLATE IRATE SLANE LEANT TRONE ALINE

Strategy after playing ROBBO

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ROBBO:

41% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
19% chance
Suggested:
IRATE
7% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

40.6% →
SLATE 6.26 bits
19.3% →
IRATE 5.32 bits
6.6% →
SLANE 5.28 bits
6.3% →
LEANT 4.59 bits
5.1% →
TRONE 4.38 bits
4.0% →
ALINE 5.16 bits
2.9% →
LIANE 4.58 bits
2.4% →
THALE 3.81 bits
1.9% →
URASE 4.28 bits
1.1% →
STAGE 4.07 bits

Research on ROBBO

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

Optimal play

Opening with ROBBO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.94 guesses and ranks #14,396 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.11 guesses at best and is rank #7,171 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.94, at or below the proven-optimal 3.94, 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 RAHBOH. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
ROBBO 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).