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

ROLEO

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.9% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of rolleo.

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 ROLEO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ROLEO 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 85.1% of games, misses completely in 14.9%, and leaves about 146 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,285 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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 ROLEO 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.

4.81 Entropy (bits)
146 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 72% of evaluated openers
1.14 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ROLEO 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
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#7,285 Rank among openers
Opening with ROLEO 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 3.71 average. It ranks #7,285 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
879
4 guesses
1,167
5 guesses
235
6 guesses
25
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
3 vowels
Common:
ELOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
32%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

ROLEO can come back 90 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

354 answers
262 answers
186 answers
173 answers
147 answers
127 answers
111 answers
84 answers
83 answers
64 answers
60 answers
49 answers
41 answers
39 answers
38 answers
35 answers
31 answers
28 answers
27 answers
26 answers
23 answers
21 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1O1L1E1O1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Strategy after playing ROLEO

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ROLEO:

15% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
11% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
8% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.9%
SAINT 6.06 bits
11.0%
SAINT 5.59 bits
7.8%
SAINT 5.33 bits
7.3%
SAINT 5.15 bits
6.2%
TRACE 4.84 bits
5.3%
SLATE 4.79 bits
4.7%
SAINT 4.02 bits
3.5%
SAUNT 4.30 bits
3.5%
SAUNT 4.49 bits
2.7%
SAINT 5.13 bits

Research on ROLEO

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

Optimal play

Opening with ROLEO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #6,614 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 ROLEO can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, 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

Three syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it ROHLEEOH. 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.