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

RONTS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.0% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of ront

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 RONTS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RONTS 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 86.0% of games, misses completely in 14.0%, and leaves about 119 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #642 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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 RONTS 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.

5.16 Entropy (bits)
119 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 91% of evaluated openers
0.78 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RONTS 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#642 Rank among openers
Opening with RONTS 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 3.59 average. It ranks #642 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
61
3 guesses
1,034
4 guesses
1,084
5 guesses
160
6 guesses
14
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
1 vowels
Common:
NORST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
27%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

RONTS can come back 107 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

333 answers
241 answers
164 answers
124 answers
105 answers
80 answers
80 answers
77 answers
71 answers
71 answers
69 answers
67 answers
47 answers
46 answers
45 answers
44 answers
43 answers
41 answers
40 answers
31 answers
30 answers
29 answers
29 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
21 answers
19 answers
19 answers
17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1O1N1T1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Strategy after playing RONTS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RONTS:

14% chance
Suggested:
MAILE
10% chance
Suggested:
CADIE
7% chance
Suggested:
SHALE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.0%
MAILE 6.10 bits
10.2%
CADIE 5.38 bits
6.9%
SHALE 5.56 bits
5.2%
CLEAT 5.13 bits
4.4%
LAIDE 5.36 bits
3.4%
CLADE 4.47 bits
3.4%
TRACE 4.79 bits
3.2%
CRAPE 4.22 bits
3.0%
CLADE 4.89 bits
3.0%
SHAPE 4.90 bits

Research on RONTS

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

Optimal play

Opening with RONTS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.62 guesses and ranks #522 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.73 guesses at best and is rank #138 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.59, at or below the proven-optimal 3.62, 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 RAHNTS. 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.