5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

RUING

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

present participle and gerund of rue

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 RUING performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RUING 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 77.9% of games, misses completely in 22.1%, and leaves about 207 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,864 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___G R in the 1st position and G in the 5th position R__N_ R in the 1st position and N in the 4th position

Try next

SLATE COATE TILDE SAMEL CLOSE PRATE
Words starting with R Words ending with G

First-turn measures

4.61 Entropy (bits)
207 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 59% of evaluated openers
1.34 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How RUING 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
0.69 Volatility
#2,864 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, RUING ranks #2,864 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
960
4 guesses
1,145
5 guesses
175
6 guesses
18
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
2 vowels
Common:
INRU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
28%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

96 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

522
355
148
124
97
92
65
63
56
56
54
52
44
43
42
39
31
26
25
23
21
19
19
17
17
16
16
16
16
15

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RUING:

22% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
15% chance
Suggested:
COATE
6% chance
Suggested:
TILDE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.1% →
SLATE 6.50 bits
15.1% →
COATE 5.56 bits
6.3% →
TILDE 5.03 bits
5.3% →
SAMEL 5.16 bits
4.1% →
CLOSE 5.25 bits
3.9% →
SLATE 5.14 bits
2.8% →
PRATE 4.32 bits
2.7% →
SADLY 4.18 bits
2.4% →
ALOSE 5.17 bits
2.4% →
CADET 4.19 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1U1I1N1G2
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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