5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

RUANA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

An outer garment typical of the Andes region of Venezuela and Colombia, and resembling a poncho.

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 RUANA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RUANA 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 80.9% of games, misses completely in 19.1%, and leaves about 182 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,568 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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___A R in the 1st position and A in the 5th position R__N_ R in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _U__A U in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE TOISE SALET STILE TALER STIME
Words starting with R Words ending with A

First-turn measures

4.53 Entropy (bits)
182 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 53% of evaluated openers
1.42 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How RUANA 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#8,568 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, RUANA ranks #8,568 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
850
4 guesses
1,173
5 guesses
260
6 guesses
23
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

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
ANRU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
33%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

80 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

450
294
210
131
126
126
99
87
84
73
60
57
44
35
34
33
28
26
24
23
21
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19
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15
14
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11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RUANA:

19% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
12% chance
Suggested:
TOISE
9% chance
Suggested:
SALET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.1% →
TOILE 6.09 bits
12.5% →
TOISE 5.46 bits
8.9% →
SALET 5.34 bits
5.6% →
TOILE 5.02 bits
5.3% →
STILE 5.16 bits
5.3% →
TALER 4.62 bits
4.2% →
STIME 4.33 bits
3.7% →
SOCLE 5.09 bits
3.6% →
TRICE 4.43 bits
3.1% →
LANCE 4.48 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1U1A1N1A1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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