5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

ROTTO

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Proper noun

Rottnest Island, a small island off the coast of Western Australia.

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 ROTTO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ROTTO 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 69.0% of games, misses completely in 31.0%, and leaves about 333 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,048 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.

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__T_ R in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _O__O O in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

Try next

SLANE SAICE CLADE CRANE ARISE LIANE
Words starting with R Words ending with O

First-turn measures

3.86 Entropy (bits)
333 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 17% of evaluated openers
2.09 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ROTTO 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
100.0% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#12,048 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ROTTO ranks #12,048 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
718
4 guesses
1,240
5 guesses
319
6 guesses
27
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

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ORT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
69%
Green tile
26%
All gray
31%

Feedback distribution

78 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

731
377
205
122
115
102
95
65
63
52
39
39
32
24
23
21
19
19
16
15
13
12
9
9
8
7
7
7
7
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ROTTO:

31% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
16% chance
Suggested:
SAICE
9% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.0% →
SLANE 6.21 bits
16.0% →
SAICE 5.48 bits
8.7% →
SLANE 5.64 bits
5.2% →
SLANE 5.38 bits
4.9% →
CLADE 4.51 bits
4.3% →
CRANE 4.58 bits
4.0% →
ARISE 4.87 bits
2.8% →
LIANE 4.50 bits
2.7% →
SHALE 4.93 bits
2.2% →
SCALE 3.94 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1O1T1T1O1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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