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ROBOT

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

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.

Etymology

Referencing the origin of the name of the 4chan imageboard /r9k/ (created in 2008), so-called because it implements the ROBOT9000 algorithm by Randall Munroe to prevent the reposting of content.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it ROHBAHT.

In a sentence

There's a robot after me.
© tatoeba.org contributor Miktsoanit (CC BY 2.0 FR)
You sound like a robot.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use ROBOT in a puzzle

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

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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).

See the full page for that puzzle: 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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ROBOT in Connections

5 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How ROBOT performs as a guess

ROBOT 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 72.8% of games, misses completely in 27.2%, and leaves about 268 possible answers on average.

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

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

First-turn measures

All four describe ROBOT 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.

4.27 Entropy (bits)
268 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
88.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#7,398 Rank among openers
Opening with ROBOT left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.71 average. It 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

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

ROBOT can come back 94 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

648 answers
331 answers
199 answers
121 answers
105 answers
95 answers
88 answers
77 answers
76 answers
59 answers
46 answers
43 answers
39 answers
30 answers
30 answers
28 answers
24 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers

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.

Try next

SLANE SAICE TASTE CLADE SAINE ALINE

Strategy after playing ROBOT

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

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.

27.2% →
SLANE 6.22 bits
13.9% →
SAICE 5.52 bits
8.3% →
TASTE 5.48 bits
5.1% →
SLANE 5.31 bits
4.4% →
CLADE 4.59 bits
4.0% →
SLANE 5.20 bits
3.7% →
SAINE 4.73 bits
3.2% →
ALINE 5.19 bits
3.2% →
CRANE 4.70 bits
2.5% →
LIANE 4.65 bits

Research on ROBOT

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

Optimal play

Opening with ROBOT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #8,149 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.88 guesses at best and is rank #3,815 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, at or below the proven-optimal 3.75, 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
ROBOT sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 17 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.8 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).