5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

ROUEN

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Proper noun

The prefecture of the department of Seine-Maritime, and the capital of the region of Normandy, France, on the Seine River.

Noun

A heavyweight breed of domesticated duck, of French origin.

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 ROUEN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ROUEN 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 88.5% of games, misses completely in 11.5%, and leaves about 106 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,736 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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___N R in the 1st position and N in the 5th position R__E_ R in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__N O in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

SLATY SLATE SHALT TRACE SALTY STAIR
Words starting with R Words ending with N

First-turn measures

5.33 Entropy (bits)
106 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 96% of evaluated openers
0.62 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ROUEN 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#2,736 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ROUEN ranks #2,736 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
74
3 guesses
965
4 guesses
1,086
5 guesses
210
6 guesses
19
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

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
ENORU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
35%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

117 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

271
260
140
127
102
97
88
86
81
72
69
62
47
39
37
30
29
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25
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18

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ROUEN:

11% chance
Suggested:
SLATY
11% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
6% chance
Suggested:
SHALT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.5% →
SLATY 5.83 bits
11.0% →
SLATE 5.83 bits
5.9% →
SHALT 5.08 bits
5.4% →
TRACE 4.89 bits
4.3% →
SALTY 4.89 bits
4.1% →
STAIR 3.69 bits
3.7% →
STOOL 5.07 bits
3.6% →
SADLY 4.27 bits
3.4% →
SADLY 4.35 bits
3.1% →
ARDOR 3.98 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1O1U1E1N1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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