ROMAN
ROMAN is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈɹəʊmən/
- Adjective
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Upright, as opposed to italic.
- Adjective
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Of or related to the Latin alphabet or roman numerals.
- Noun
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One of the main three types used for the Latin alphabet (the others being italics and blackletter), in which the ascenders are mostly straight.
- Noun
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Ellipsis of roman numeral.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Old French Romain, from Latin Rōmānus. By surface analysis, Rom(e) + -an. Doublet of Romano. Displaced native Romish.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it ROHMUHN.
Rhymes with TOMAN
In a sentence
He was a Roman Catholic.
Where is the Roman Empire?
Use ROMAN in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 94.2% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
NoThe solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.
Past Wordle answer
No completed appearanceNo 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.
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See what the public sample says →ROMAN in Connections
2 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #672
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ROMAN appeared in FONT-MODIFYING WORDS (blue group).
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· Puzzle #506
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ROMAN appeared in SINGULAR NOUN IN A FAMOUS “JULIUS CAESAR” LINE (blue group).
How ROMAN performs as a guess
Wordle accepts ROMAN 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 85.7% of games, misses completely in 14.3%, and leaves about 139 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,305 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.
First-turn measures
All four describe ROMAN 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How ROMAN 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Feedback distribution
ROMAN can come back 116 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for ROMAN; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
Try next
Strategy after playing ROMAN
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to ROMAN.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing ROMAN:
Research on ROMAN
Game-tree analysis and word research for ROMAN, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with ROMAN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,058 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 #633 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.61, at or below the proven-optimal 3.66, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- ROMAN sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 32 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (2.4 of 5).
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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).