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

RYNDS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of rynd

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

Use RYNDS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 91.7% 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 RYNDS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RYNDS 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 81.9% of games, misses completely in 18.1%, and leaves about 197 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,129 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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 RYNDS 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.

4.39 Entropy (bits)
197 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.7% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RYNDS 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.67 Spread of game lengths
#6,129 Rank among openers
Opening with RYNDS left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.67 means those games clustered within about 0.67 of a guess of the 3.69 average. It ranks #6,129 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
38
3 guesses
884
4 guesses
1,222
5 guesses
193
6 guesses
16

Composition

5/5 unique
0 vowels
Common:
NRS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
15%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

RYNDS can come back 78 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

431 answers
341 answers
258 answers
170 answers
126 answers
116 answers
98 answers
70 answers
70 answers
67 answers
61 answers
60 answers
53 answers
52 answers
33 answers
28 answers
25 answers
23 answers
21 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1Y4N1D2S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing RYNDS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RYNDS:

18% chance
Suggested:
OLATE
14% chance
Suggested:
COATE
11% chance
Suggested:
STALE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.1% →
OLATE 6.10 bits
14.3% →
COATE 5.65 bits
10.8% →
STALE 5.80 bits
7.1% →
TOILE 5.59 bits
5.3% →
PALET 4.74 bits
4.9% →
STRAE 4.96 bits
4.1% →
OLATE 5.17 bits
2.9% →
LIANE 4.43 bits
2.9% →
ARIEL 4.65 bits
2.8% →
CADIE 4.58 bits

Research on RYNDS

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

Optimal play

Opening with RYNDS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #6,559 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 RYNDS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).