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

ROUEN

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

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.

Etymology

Borrowed from French Rouen, from Latin Rotomagus. Replaced Middle English Rone, from Anglo-Norman Ron.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use ROUEN in a puzzle

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

Open Solver with ROUEN Open Word Finder

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

No completed appearance

No 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.

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 107 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,736 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

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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 RO_EN R in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and N in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in ROUEN.

First-turn measures

All four describe ROUEN 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.

5.33 Entropy (bits)
107 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.5% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous 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% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#2,736 Rank among openers
Opening with ROUEN solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It 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

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
ENORU

Feedback chances

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

Feedback distribution

ROUEN can come back 118 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

274 answers
263 answers
140 answers
127 answers
103 answers
100 answers
89 answers
86 answers
82 answers
72 answers
69 answers
62 answers
48 answers
39 answers
37 answers
31 answers
29 answers
29 answers
28 answers
26 answers
24 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers

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.

Try next

SLATY SLATE SHALT TRACE SALTY STAIR

Strategy after playing ROUEN

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

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 5.85 bits
11.0% →
SLATE 5.83 bits
5.9% →
SHALT 5.08 bits
5.3% →
TRACE 4.89 bits
4.3% →
SALTY 4.90 bits
4.2% →
STAIR 3.77 bits
3.7% →
STOOL 5.06 bits
3.6% →
SADLY 4.27 bits
3.4% →
SADLY 4.33 bits
3.0% →
ARDOR 3.98 bits

Research on ROUEN

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

Optimal play

Opening with ROUEN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.64 guesses and ranks #1,093 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with ROUEN can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.64, 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
ROUEN sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).