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

ROHES

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of rohe

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use ROHES in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 95.3% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How ROHES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ROHES 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 87.9% of games, misses completely in 12.1%, and leaves about 113 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,396 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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

All four describe ROHES 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.

5.13 Entropy (bits)
113 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ROHES 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#4,396 Rank among openers
Opening with ROHES solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.66 average. It ranks #4,396 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
68
3 guesses
905
4 guesses
1,162
5 guesses
198
6 guesses
21

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EORS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
28%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

ROHES can come back 102 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

288 answers
235 answers
143 answers
135 answers
122 answers
104 answers
101 answers
94 answers
91 answers
86 answers
81 answers
72 answers
54 answers
49 answers
45 answers
44 answers
39 answers
27 answers
27 answers
26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
19 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1O1H4E1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing ROHES

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ROHES:

12% chance
Suggested:
PLAIT
10% chance
Suggested:
DEALT
6% chance
Suggested:
SAULT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.1% →
PLAIT 5.62 bits
9.9% →
DEALT 5.54 bits
6.0% →
SAULT 5.30 bits
5.7% →
TRAIN 5.17 bits
5.1% →
TRADE 4.56 bits
4.4% →
LAIDE 3.58 bits
4.2% →
SLANT 4.94 bits
3.9% →
TALON 5.04 bits
3.8% →
MOLDY 4.17 bits
3.6% →
APRON 3.99 bits

Research on ROHES

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

Optimal play

Opening with ROHES, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #2,609 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with ROHES can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).