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

ROKED

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

No dictionary definition for ROKED is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 93.2% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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

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 ROKED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ROKED 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 82.6% of games, misses completely in 17.4%, and leaves about 162 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,309 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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 ROKED 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.

4.75 Entropy (bits)
162 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 69% of evaluated openers
1.19 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ROKED 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#5,309 Rank among openers
Opening with ROKED left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.67 average. It ranks #5,309 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
45
3 guesses
904
4 guesses
1,187
5 guesses
205
6 guesses
12
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:
EOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
30%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

ROKED can come back 86 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

412 answers
304 answers
164 answers
126 answers
124 answers
110 answers
104 answers
91 answers
82 answers
79 answers
66 answers
54 answers
49 answers
34 answers
33 answers
28 answers
27 answers
27 answers
24 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1O1K5E1D2
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing ROKED

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ROKED:

17% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
13% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
7% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.4%
SAINT 6.10 bits
12.8%
SLATE 5.75 bits
6.9%
SAINT 5.30 bits
5.3%
TEASE 4.85 bits
5.2%
SLANT 5.35 bits
4.6%
SALTY 4.49 bits
4.4%
SAINT 3.95 bits
3.8%
ARSON 4.27 bits
3.5%
SLACK 5.00 bits
3.3%
SLANT 4.80 bits

Research on ROKED

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

Optimal play

Opening with ROKED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #3,144 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 ROKED can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it ROHKT. 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.