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

CERGE

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Obsolete form of cierge.

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

Use CERGE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 91.6% 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 CERGE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CERGE 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 76.7% of games, misses completely in 23.3%, and leaves about 201 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,514 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 CERGE 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.

4.63 Entropy (bits)
201 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CERGE 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
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#6,514 Rank among openers
Opening with CERGE 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 3.69 average. It ranks #6,514 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
865
4 guesses
1,193
5 guesses
226
6 guesses
14

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
39%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

CERGE can come back 93 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

556 answers
223 answers
160 answers
150 answers
135 answers
122 answers
90 answers
74 answers
71 answers
71 answers
60 answers
41 answers
36 answers
35 answers
29 answers
27 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
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17 answers
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16 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3E1R1G2E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing CERGE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CERGE:

23% chance
Suggested:
SAULT
9% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
7% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.3% →
SAULT 6.01 bits
9.4% →
TRAIN 5.25 bits
6.7% →
SLANT 5.36 bits
6.3% →
ALIEN 5.09 bits
5.7% →
SAINT 4.28 bits
5.1% →
SAINT 4.88 bits
3.8% →
SOILY 4.96 bits
3.1% →
SLANT 4.42 bits
3.0% →
SALTY 4.64 bits
3.0% →
SALTY 4.74 bits

Research on CERGE

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

Optimal play

Opening with CERGE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,108 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.88 guesses at best and is rank #3,622 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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).