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

ROINS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.1% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of roin

Noun

plural of roin

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 ROINS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ROINS 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 86.5% of games, misses completely in 13.5%, and leaves about 117 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #566 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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 ROINS 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.

5.17 Entropy (bits)
117 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 91% of evaluated openers
0.77 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ROINS 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#566 Rank among openers
Opening with ROINS solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.59 average. It ranks #566 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
56
3 guesses
1,058
4 guesses
1,061
5 guesses
162
6 guesses
17
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
INORS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
32%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

ROINS can come back 107 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

320 answers
233 answers
188 answers
123 answers
99 answers
91 answers
86 answers
81 answers
78 answers
63 answers
61 answers
56 answers
50 answers
49 answers
48 answers
41 answers
40 answers
39 answers
34 answers
33 answers
26 answers
25 answers
25 answers
24 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1O1I1N1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Strategy after playing ROINS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ROINS:

13% chance
Suggested:
PLATE
10% chance
Suggested:
CADET
8% chance
Suggested:
STALE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.5%
PLATE 6.03 bits
9.8%
CADET 5.39 bits
7.9%
STALE 5.76 bits
5.2%
TILDE 5.15 bits
4.2%
THALE 4.45 bits
3.8%
CRATE 4.34 bits
3.6%
LANCE 5.04 bits
3.4%
BLATE 4.98 bits
3.3%
SPATE 5.03 bits
2.7%
CADET 4.33 bits

Research on ROINS

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

Optimal play

Opening with ROINS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #853 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.77 guesses at best and is rank #605 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.59, at or below the proven-optimal 3.63, 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

One syllable Say it ROYNZ. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.