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ROWER

Yes, ROWER was the Wordle answer on January 19, 2025 (Wordle #1310).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɹəʊ.ə(ɹ)/

Noun

One who rows.

Noun

A rowing machine.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: January 19, 2025 (#1310).

See the full page for that puzzle: January 19, 2025 (#1310).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How ROWER performs as a guess

ROWER is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 77.8% of games, misses completely in 22.2%, and leaves about 232 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,429 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

R___R R in the 1st position and R in the 5th position R__E_ R in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__R O in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position RO_ER R in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe ROWER 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.

4.30 Entropy (bits)
232 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 38% of evaluated openers
1.65 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ROWER 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#11,429 Rank among openers
Opening with ROWER left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.79 average. It ranks #11,429 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
746
4 guesses
1,233
5 guesses
314
6 guesses
17
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
29%
All gray
22%

Example solver route

R O A T E
G I V E R
R O W E R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches ROWER in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

ROWER can come back 80 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

527 answers
384 answers
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Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1O1W4E1R1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

SLAIN SLATE SAINT SLANT CRATE SALTY

Strategy after playing ROWER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ROWER:

22% chance
Suggested:
SLAIN
16% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
7% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.2% →
SLAIN 5.88 bits
16.2% →
SLATE 5.68 bits
7.5% →
SAINT 5.23 bits
6.1% →
SLANT 5.25 bits
5.8% →
CRATE 4.80 bits
5.7% →
SALTY 4.50 bits
3.9% →
SLANT 4.82 bits
3.5% →
SLANT 3.80 bits
3.1% →
DROIT 3.96 bits
2.8% →
SLANE 4.21 bits

Research on ROWER

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

Optimal play

Opening with ROWER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses and ranks #10,356 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 ROWER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.79, at or below the proven-optimal 3.79, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it ROHUR.

Rhymes with LOWER MOWER SOWER

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, ROWER is a kind of worker.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
ROWER sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.0 of 5).

In a sentence

The rower blames his oar.
© tatoeba.org contributor Swift (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Tom has the perfect physique for a world-class rower.
© tatoeba.org contributor Eccles17 (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).