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

ELOGE

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A statement or disquisition in praise of someone who has died.

Noun

Specifically, the statement made by a new member of the French Academy about his predecessor.

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

Etymology

From French éloge, from Latin ēlogium. Doublet of elogy.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use ELOGE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 92.2% 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 ELOGE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ELOGE 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 79.8% of games, misses completely in 20.2%, and leaves about 186 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,057 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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 ELOGE 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.

4.60 Entropy (bits)
186 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.2% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ELOGE 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#8,057 Rank among openers
Opening with ELOGE left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.72 average. It ranks #8,057 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
828
4 guesses
1,199
5 guesses
256
6 guesses
13

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
ELO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
35%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

ELOGE can come back 87 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

482 answers
269 answers
202 answers
156 answers
144 answers
107 answers
90 answers
74 answers
71 answers
67 answers
57 answers
50 answers
49 answers
43 answers
36 answers
28 answers
25 answers
24 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1L1O1G2E1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing ELOGE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ELOGE:

20% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
11% chance
Suggested:
STAIR
8% chance
Suggested:
RAINY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.2% →
SAINT 6.08 bits
11.3% →
STAIR 5.35 bits
8.5% →
RAINY 4.96 bits
6.5% →
SAURY 4.88 bits
6.0% →
STAIR 4.94 bits
4.5% →
STARY 4.38 bits
3.8% →
RATEL 4.37 bits
3.1% →
SAINT 4.38 bits
3.0% →
SAINT 5.10 bits
2.8% →
VOTER 4.25 bits

Research on ELOGE

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

Optimal play

Opening with ELOGE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,761 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.89 guesses at best and is rank #3,900 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.72, at or below the proven-optimal 3.74, 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).