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

BURGS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of burg

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 BURGS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BURGS 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 75.0% of games, misses completely in 25.0%, and leaves about 267 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,404 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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.
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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

B___S B in the 1st position and S in the 5th position B__G_ B in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _U__S U in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in BURGS.

First-turn measures

All four describe BURGS 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.

4.21 Entropy (bits)
267 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 33% of evaluated openers
1.73 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BURGS 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#7,404 Rank among openers
Opening with BURGS solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.71 average. It ranks #7,404 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
62
3 guesses
843
4 guesses
1,185
5 guesses
244
6 guesses
20
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
1 vowels
Common:
RSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
24%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

BURGS can come back 95 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

594 answers
356 answers
315 answers
95 answers
91 answers
86 answers
77 answers
65 answers
62 answers
58 answers
50 answers
42 answers
37 answers
34 answers
33 answers
27 answers
23 answers
23 answers
16 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3U1R1G2S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

TOILE CADET PLATE STOAE CLONE ALONE

Strategy after playing BURGS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BURGS:

25% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
15% chance
Suggested:
CADET
13% chance
Suggested:
PLATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.0% →
TOILE 6.00 bits
15.0% →
CADET 5.37 bits
13.3% →
PLATE 5.77 bits
4.0% →
STOAE 4.97 bits
3.8% →
CLONE 4.92 bits
3.6% →
ALONE 5.46 bits
3.2% →
MATEY 4.68 bits
2.7% →
PLACE 4.09 bits
2.6% →
ALONE 4.73 bits
2.4% →
ALINE 4.62 bits

Research on BURGS

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

Optimal play

Opening with BURGS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #7,844 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 #2,992 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, at or below the proven-optimal 3.75, 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

One syllable Say it BURGZ. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, BURGS is a kind of town.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BURGS 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); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).