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ROBOT

Yes, ROBOT was the Wordle answer on January 20, 2022 (Wordle #215).

As an opener, it rules out about 88.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɹəʊ̯.bɒt//ˈɹəʊ̯.bət//ˈɹoʊ̯.bɑt/

Noun

An intelligent mechanical being designed to look like a human or other creature, and usually made from metal.

Noun

A machine built to carry out some complex task or group of tasks by physically moving, especially one which can be programmed.

“We have a robot in the house that does the vacuuming.”

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: January 20, 2022 (#215).

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

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How ROBOT performs as a guess

ROBOT 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 72.9% of games, misses completely in 27.1%, and leaves about 264 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,398 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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.

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__O_ R in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _O__T O in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

SLANE SAICE TASTE CLADE TIARE CRANE
Words starting with R Words ending with T

First-turn measures

4.27 Entropy (bits)
264 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
88.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 37% of evaluated openers
1.68 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ROBOT 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#7,398 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ROBOT ranks #7,398 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
828
4 guesses
1,222
5 guesses
228
6 guesses
17
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ORT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
31%
All gray
27%

Example solver route

R O A T E
R O B O T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches ROBOT in 2 guesses.

Feedback distribution

94 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

639
329
196
121
103
93
86
76
75
57
46
43
39
30
29
28
24
17
17
17
17
17
15
15
12
11
10
10
9
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ROBOT:

27% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
14% chance
Suggested:
SAICE
8% chance
Suggested:
TASTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.1% →
SLANE 6.22 bits
14.0% →
SAICE 5.52 bits
8.3% →
TASTE 5.48 bits
5.1% →
SLANE 5.31 bits
4.4% →
CLADE 4.59 bits
3.9% →
SLANE 5.21 bits
3.6% →
TIARE 4.76 bits
3.2% →
CRANE 4.69 bits
3.2% →
ALINE 5.17 bits
2.4% →
LIANE 4.55 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1O1B3O1T1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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