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

RUTIN

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A flavonoid, found in many plants, that is a glycoside of quercetin and rutinose.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use RUTIN in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 94.0% of possible answers.

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 RUTIN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RUTIN 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 83.8% of games, misses completely in 16.2%, and leaves about 143 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #915 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe RUTIN 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.

5.03 Entropy (bits)
143 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.0% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RUTIN 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#915 Rank among openers
Opening with RUTIN left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.60 average. It ranks #915 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
70
3 guesses
1,007
4 guesses
1,093
5 guesses
165
6 guesses
17

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
INRTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
26%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

RUTIN can come back 114 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

387 answers
292 answers
159 answers
129 answers
112 answers
85 answers
81 answers
73 answers
70 answers
64 answers
60 answers
46 answers
42 answers
39 answers
39 answers
38 answers
37 answers
35 answers
33 answers
32 answers
29 answers
27 answers
25 answers
24 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
16 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1U1T1I1N1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing RUTIN

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RUTIN:

16% chance
Suggested:
SCALE
12% chance
Suggested:
CARSE
7% chance
Suggested:
SHALE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.2% →
SCALE 6.16 bits
12.2% →
CARSE 5.27 bits
6.7% →
SHALE 5.69 bits
5.4% →
SIDLE 5.30 bits
4.7% →
ALOSE 5.22 bits
3.6% →
TARSE 4.95 bits
3.4% →
PAISE 4.34 bits
3.1% →
CLOSE 5.13 bits
2.9% →
SAYNE 4.18 bits
2.7% →
SADLY 4.12 bits

Research on RUTIN

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

Optimal play

Opening with RUTIN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,829 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.77 guesses at best and is rank #735 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.60, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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
RUTIN sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

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