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

GLOGG

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɡlɒɡ//ɡlɜːɡ//ɡlʌɡ/

Noun

A Scandinavian version of vin chaud or mulled wine; a hot punch made of red wine, brandy and sherry flavoured with almonds, raisins and orange peel.

Alternative forms: glögg

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

Use GLOGG in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 77.2% 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 GLOGG performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GLOGG 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 57.1% of games, misses completely in 42.9%, and leaves about 543 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,634 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.98 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 GLOGG 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.

3.02 Entropy (bits)
543 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
77.2% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GLOGG 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.

3.98 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#14,634 Rank among openers
Opening with GLOGG left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.98 average. It ranks #14,634 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
20
3 guesses
531
4 guesses
1,306
5 guesses
456
6 guesses
39

Composition

3/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
LO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
57%
Green tile
25%
All gray
43%

Feedback distribution

GLOGG can come back 41 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1023 answers
313 answers
299 answers
163 answers
133 answers
81 answers
59 answers
43 answers
39 answers
35 answers
22 answers
20 answers
19 answers
16 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
3 answers
3 answers
2 answers
2 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2L1O1G2G2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Strategy after playing GLOGG

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GLOGG:

43% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
13% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
13% chance
Suggested:
TONER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

42.9% →
TIARE 6.25 bits
13.1% →
RAILE 5.25 bits
12.5% →
TONER 5.34 bits
6.8% →
STARE 4.77 bits
5.6% →
SPACE 5.05 bits
3.4% →
LOYAL 4.23 bits
2.5% →
TRAPE 4.73 bits
1.8% →
RAINE 4.68 bits
1.6% →
DEARE 4.16 bits
1.5% →
CADET 3.65 bits

Research on GLOGG

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

Optimal play

Opening with GLOGG, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.99 guesses and ranks #14,650 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.13 guesses at best and is rank #7,241 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.98, at or below the proven-optimal 3.99, 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).