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

HOOGO

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

No dictionary definition for HOOGO is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 72.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

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

How HOOGO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts HOOGO 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 49.5% of games, misses completely in 50.5%, and leaves about 664 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,680 of 14,855 openers, averaging 4.00 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

H___O H in the 1st position and O in the 5th position H__G_ H in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _O__O O in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in HOOGO.

First-turn measures

All four describe HOOGO 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.

2.94 Entropy (bits)
664 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
72.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 1% of evaluated openers
3.01 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How HOOGO 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.

4.00 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.75 Spread of game lengths
#14,680 Rank among openers
Opening with HOOGO left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.75 means those games clustered within about 0.75 of a guess of the 4.00 average. It ranks #14,680 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
21
3 guesses
547
4 guesses
1,234
5 guesses
506
6 guesses
43
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

3/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
O

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
50%
Green tile
28%
All gray
50%

Feedback distribution

HOOGO can come back 45 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1198 answers
218 answers
174 answers
151 answers
134 answers
109 answers
48 answers
45 answers
32 answers
30 answers
28 answers
22 answers
21 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
3 answers
3 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4O1O1G2O1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

RAILE SAICE TALER CRATE LATER DAINE

Strategy after playing HOOGO

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HOOGO:

50% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
9% chance
Suggested:
SAICE
7% chance
Suggested:
TALER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

50.5% →
RAILE 6.15 bits
9.2% →
SAICE 5.51 bits
7.3% →
TALER 4.61 bits
6.4% →
RAILE 5.42 bits
5.6% →
CRATE 4.85 bits
4.6% →
LATER 5.05 bits
2.0% →
DAINE 4.45 bits
1.9% →
TARSE 4.61 bits
1.3% →
SATER 4.39 bits
1.3% →
TARSE 4.12 bits

Research on HOOGO

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

Optimal play

Opening with HOOGO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.99 guesses and ranks #14,651 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.15 guesses at best and is rank #7,300 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 4.00; proven optimal play reaches 3.99. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it HOOGOH. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.