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

RYOTI

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

No dictionary definition for RYOTI is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 94.4% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 RYOTI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RYOTI 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 85.5% of games, misses completely in 14.5%, and leaves about 134 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,108 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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 RYOTI 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.

4.85 Entropy (bits)
134 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 75% of evaluated openers
1.09 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RYOTI 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#4,108 Rank among openers
Opening with RYOTI left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.65 average. It ranks #4,108 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
947
4 guesses
1,143
5 guesses
195
6 guesses
19
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
IORT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
22%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

RYOTI can come back 83 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

345 answers
215 answers
203 answers
148 answers
118 answers
109 answers
103 answers
94 answers
84 answers
82 answers
81 answers
66 answers
49 answers
47 answers
44 answers
43 answers
43 answers
33 answers
33 answers
33 answers
30 answers
25 answers
21 answers
21 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1Y4O1T1I1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing RYOTI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RYOTI:

15% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
9% chance
Suggested:
SAUCE
9% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.5%
SLANE 6.26 bits
9.1%
SAUCE 5.36 bits
8.6%
SLANE 5.58 bits
6.2%
LEAST 5.55 bits
5.0%
SLADE 4.75 bits
4.6%
CLAME 4.89 bits
4.3%
SNIDE 4.52 bits
4.0%
SIENT 4.53 bits
3.5%
MORSE 4.09 bits
3.5%
SLANE 4.71 bits

Research on RYOTI

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

Optimal play

Opening with RYOTI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,774 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.85 guesses at best and is rank #2,840 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.71, 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

Three syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it REEOHTEE. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.