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

LONGA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Preposition

Belonging to; of, in, at, to.

Noun

A musical note equal to two (or occasionally three) breves or whole notes.

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 LONGA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LONGA 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 83.0% of games, misses completely in 17.0%, and leaves about 169 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,320 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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.

L___A L in the 1st position and A in the 5th position L__G_ L in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _O__A O in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe LONGA 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.

4.78 Entropy (bits)
169 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 70% of evaluated openers
1.17 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LONGA 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#3,320 Rank among openers
Opening with LONGA solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.64 average. It ranks #3,320 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
943
4 guesses
1,147
5 guesses
191
6 guesses
14
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:
ALNO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
24%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

LONGA can come back 101 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

403 answers
337 answers
174 answers
156 answers
146 answers
116 answers
101 answers
72 answers
51 answers
49 answers
49 answers
42 answers
41 answers
35 answers
32 answers
27 answers
24 answers
24 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1O1N1G2A1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

STIRE TARSE SLIER STARE TRICE RUOTE

Strategy after playing LONGA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LONGA:

17% chance
Suggested:
STIRE
14% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
7% chance
Suggested:
SLIER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.0% →
STIRE 6.11 bits
14.2% →
TARSE 5.70 bits
7.3% →
SLIER 5.10 bits
6.6% →
STARE 4.63 bits
6.1% →
TRICE 5.26 bits
4.9% →
RUOTE 4.48 bits
4.3% →
STIRE 5.28 bits
3.0% →
TRAIN 4.54 bits
2.1% →
SPICE 4.31 bits
2.1% →
ACTOR 4.22 bits

Research on LONGA

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

Optimal play

Opening with LONGA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #3,962 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.79 guesses at best and is rank #1,032 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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 LAWNGGUH. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
LONGA 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 frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).