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

LIGNE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Synonym of line (“ill-defined unit of length”).

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

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 LIGNE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LIGNE 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 83.6% of games, misses completely in 16.4%, and leaves about 142 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,780 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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.
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Useful pattern pages

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

L___E L in the 1st position and E in the 5th position L__N_ L in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _I__E I in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe LIGNE 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.

5.06 Entropy (bits)
142 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 86% of evaluated openers
0.88 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LIGNE 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#1,780 Rank among openers
Opening with LIGNE left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.62 average. It ranks #1,780 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
78
3 guesses
958
4 guesses
1,122
5 guesses
179
6 guesses
15
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EILN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
36%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

LIGNE can come back 117 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

389 answers
260 answers
175 answers
157 answers
123 answers
101 answers
81 answers
70 answers
60 answers
59 answers
55 answers
49 answers
43 answers
40 answers
39 answers
39 answers
36 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1I1G2N1E1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

ROAST BETEL CANON EATEN STILL DIRTY

Strategy after playing LIGNE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LIGNE:

16% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
11% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
7% chance
Suggested:
ROAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.4% →
ROAST 6.09 bits
11.0% →
ROAST 5.28 bits
7.4% →
ROAST 5.11 bits
6.6% →
ROAST 5.30 bits
5.2% →
ROAST 5.25 bits
4.3% →
BETEL 4.47 bits
3.4% →
CANON 4.89 bits
2.9% →
EATEN 4.38 bits
2.5% →
STILL 4.21 bits
2.5% →
DIRTY 4.11 bits

Research on LIGNE

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

Optimal play

Opening with LIGNE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,695 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.78 guesses at best and is rank #939 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it LYGN. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, LIGNE is a kind of unit.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
LIGNE sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).