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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

GORGE

Yes, GORGE was the Wordle answer on January 9, 2022 (Wordle #204).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɡɔːdʒ//ɡɔɹd͡ʒ/

Noun

The throat of a flower.

Noun

Food that has been taken into the gullet or the stomach, particularly if it is regurgitated or vomited out.

“My gorge rises at the sight of it.”

Verb

To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities.

“They gorged themselves on chocolate and cake.”

Verb

To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.

Alternative forms: gorg

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: January 9, 2022 (#204).

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

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How GORGE performs as a guess

GORGE 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 79.4% of games, misses completely in 20.6%, and leaves about 196 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,982 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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___E G in the 1st position and E in the 5th position G__G_ G in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _O__E O in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SLAIN SLANT STAIR SAINT SALTY ARSON
Words starting with G Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.45 Entropy (bits)
196 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 48% of evaluated openers
1.50 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GORGE 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#9,982 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GORGE ranks #9,982 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
784
4 guesses
1,222
5 guesses
278
6 guesses
20
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
38%
All gray
21%

Example solver route

R O A T E
G N A S H
G O R G E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GORGE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

81 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

486
256
201
184
160
133
123
93
59
56
43
38
31
31
26
26
25
25
23
23
23
17
17
16
16
15
12
11
10
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GORGE:

21% chance
Suggested:
SLAIN
11% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
9% chance
Suggested:
STAIR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.6% →
SLAIN 5.85 bits
10.9% →
SLANT 5.53 bits
8.5% →
STAIR 4.26 bits
7.8% →
SLANT 5.27 bits
6.8% →
SAINT 5.27 bits
5.6% →
SLANT 5.09 bits
5.2% →
SALTY 4.46 bits
3.9% →
ARSON 4.17 bits
2.5% →
CRAPE 3.73 bits
2.4% →
SALTY 4.67 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2O1R1G2E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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