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GOING

Yes, GOING was the Wordle answer on November 19, 2024 (Wordle #1249).

As an opener, it rules out about 85.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɡəʊ.ɪŋ//ˈɡuː.ɪŋ/ [ˈɡʊw.ɪŋɡ]/ˈɡæn.ɪn/

Verb

present participle and gerund of go

“I'm afraid I must be going.”

Verb

Attending or visiting (a stated event, place, etc.) habitually or regularly.

Noun

A departure.

Noun

The suitability of ground for riding, walking etc.

“The going was very difficult over the ice.”

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: November 19, 2024 (#1249).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How GOING performs as a guess

GOING is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 66.8% of games, misses completely in 33.2%, and leaves about 338 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,172 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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.

Useful pattern pages

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

G__N_ G in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _O__G O in the 2nd position and G in the 5th position

Try next

REAST CRATE SALET TALER CASER CANER
Words starting with G Words ending with G

First-turn measures

3.90 Entropy (bits)
338 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
85.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 18% of evaluated openers
2.05 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GOING 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#11,172 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GOING ranks #11,172 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
731
4 guesses
1,277
5 guesses
284
6 guesses
16
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
INO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
67%
Green tile
31%
All gray
33%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S C O L D
B O U G H
G O I N G

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GOING in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

72 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

783
221
203
175
156
123
78
64
59
46
45
33
31
28
22
19
18
18
16
16
14
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11
9
9
9
8
7
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GOING:

33% chance
Suggested:
REAST
9% chance
Suggested:
CRATE
9% chance
Suggested:
SALET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

33.2% →
REAST 6.32 bits
9.4% →
CRATE 5.36 bits
8.6% →
SALET 5.18 bits
7.4% →
TALER 4.71 bits
6.6% →
CRATE 5.13 bits
5.2% →
CASER 5.05 bits
3.3% →
CANER 4.47 bits
2.7% →
LEAST 4.81 bits
2.5% →
ARSON 4.56 bits
2.0% →
TRAPE 4.54 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2O1I1N1G2
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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