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

LOGOS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.4% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈlɒɡɒs//ˈloʊɡoʊs//ˈloʊɡɑs/

Noun

A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker uses logical argument as the main form of persuasion.

Noun

Alternative letter-case form of Logos.

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 LOGOS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LOGOS 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 71.6% of games, misses completely in 28.4%, and leaves about 300 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,743 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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 LOGOS 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.

3.98 Entropy (bits)
300 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 22% of evaluated openers
1.96 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LOGOS 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#10,743 Rank among openers
Opening with LOGOS 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 3.78 average. It ranks #10,743 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
43
3 guesses
770
4 guesses
1,229
5 guesses
287
6 guesses
23
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
LOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
24%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

LOGOS can come back 76 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

675 answers
322 answers
293 answers
121 answers
116 answers
104 answers
93 answers
58 answers
55 answers
49 answers
41 answers
39 answers
35 answers
35 answers
31 answers
26 answers
22 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1O1G2O1S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing LOGOS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LOGOS:

28% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
14% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
12% chance
Suggested:
RAILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.4%
TIARE 6.26 bits
13.6%
TIARE 5.72 bits
12.3%
RAILE 5.38 bits
5.1%
TRINE 5.33 bits
4.9%
CARET 4.76 bits
4.4%
RAINE 5.42 bits
3.9%
SALLE 4.67 bits
2.4%
CANER 4.60 bits
2.3%
TRUCE 4.20 bits
2.1%
CANER 4.64 bits

Research on LOGOS

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

Optimal play

Opening with LOGOS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,546 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.91 guesses at best and is rank #4,437 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.78, at or below the proven-optimal 3.80, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it LOHGOHZ.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, LOGOS is a kind of trademark.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
LOGOS sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 3 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.2 of 5).

In a sentence

A slew of corporate logos adorned the entrance to the soccer match.
© tatoeba.org contributor darinmex (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).