5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

ROMEO

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative letter-case form of Romeo from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.

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 ROMEO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ROMEO 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 80.1% of games, misses completely in 19.9%, and leaves about 204 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,960 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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.

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

R___O R in the 1st position and O in the 5th position R__E_ R in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__O O in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

Try next

SAINT SLATE TRACE SAULT SLANT SAUNT
Words starting with R Words ending with O

First-turn measures

4.46 Entropy (bits)
204 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 49% of evaluated openers
1.49 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ROMEO 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#8,960 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ROMEO ranks #8,960 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
818
4 guesses
1,189
5 guesses
271
6 guesses
20
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
EOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
30%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

89 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

470
365
197
144
121
97
96
91
85
69
56
45
31
30
29
27
25
21
21
19
19
18
18
17
16
15
14
9
8
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ROMEO:

20% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
15% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
8% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.9% →
SAINT 6.11 bits
15.5% →
SLATE 5.69 bits
8.4% →
SAINT 5.35 bits
6.1% →
TRACE 4.91 bits
5.1% →
SAINT 3.85 bits
4.1% →
SAULT 4.35 bits
4.1% →
SLANT 5.27 bits
3.9% →
SLANT 4.80 bits
3.6% →
SAUNT 4.18 bits
2.9% →
SAUCY 4.62 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1O1M3E1O1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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