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

ROKOS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.3% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of roko

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 ROKOS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ROKOS 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 72.1% of games, misses completely in 27.9%, and leaves about 302 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,106 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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 ROKOS 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.

3.91 Entropy (bits)
302 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 19% of evaluated openers
2.04 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ROKOS 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#12,106 Rank among openers
Opening with ROKOS left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.81 average. It ranks #12,106 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
35
3 guesses
720
4 guesses
1,269
5 guesses
307
6 guesses
22
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ORS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
23%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

ROKOS can come back 64 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

663 answers
364 answers
285 answers
126 answers
99 answers
94 answers
83 answers
69 answers
68 answers
50 answers
47 answers
43 answers
39 answers
34 answers
32 answers
30 answers
21 answers
20 answers
17 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1O1K5O1S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing ROKOS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ROKOS:

28% chance
Suggested:
LIANE
15% chance
Suggested:
IRATE
12% chance
Suggested:
STALE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.9%
LIANE 6.11 bits
15.3%
IRATE 5.39 bits
12.0%
STALE 5.78 bits
5.3%
LEANT 4.55 bits
4.2%
STRAE 4.85 bits
4.0%
ALINE 5.44 bits
3.5%
TRONE 4.24 bits
2.9%
CLINE 5.08 bits
2.9%
LIANE 4.44 bits
2.1%
THALE 3.86 bits

Research on ROKOS

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

Optimal play

Opening with ROKOS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.82 guesses and ranks #11,415 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.96 guesses at best and is rank #5,413 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.81, at or below the proven-optimal 3.82, 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

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

Rhymes with COCOS

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
ROKOS sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

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).