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LUNGE

Yes, LUNGE was the Wordle answer on January 5, 2024 (Wordle #930).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /lʌnd͡ʒ//lɐnd͡ʒ/

Noun

A sudden forward movement, especially with a sword.

Noun

A long rope or flat web line, more commonly referred to as a lunge line, approximately 20–30 feet long, attached to the bridle, lungeing cavesson, or halter of a horse and used to control the animal while lungeing.

Verb

To (cause to) make a sudden forward movement (present participle: lunging).

“I lunged at the police officer and made a grab for her gun.”

Verb

To longe or work a horse in a circle around a handler (present participle: lunging or lungeing).

Alternative forms: longe

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 5, 2024 (#930).

See the full page for that puzzle: January 5, 2024 (#930).

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How LUNGE performs as a guess

LUNGE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 81.7% of games, misses completely in 18.3%, and leaves about 167 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,690 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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___E L in the 1st position and E in the 5th position L__G_ L in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _U__E U in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe LUNGE 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.

4.85 Entropy (bits)
167 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 75% of evaluated openers
1.10 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LUNGE 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#2,690 Rank among openers
Opening with LUNGE left 4 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 3.63 average. It ranks #2,690 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
73
3 guesses
926
4 guesses
1,154
5 guesses
182
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:
ELNU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
32%
All gray
18%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I N G
L U N G E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches LUNGE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

LUNGE can come back 110 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

434 answers
288 answers
194 answers
165 answers
112 answers
107 answers
73 answers
70 answers
67 answers
57 answers
44 answers
43 answers
39 answers
37 answers
37 answers
37 answers
31 answers
28 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1U1N1G2E1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

ROAST STAIR COAST PETAL TRAIN TASER

Strategy after playing LUNGE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LUNGE:

18% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
12% chance
Suggested:
STAIR
8% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.3% →
ROAST 6.12 bits
12.1% →
STAIR 5.24 bits
8.2% →
COAST 5.19 bits
7.0% →
ROAST 5.21 bits
4.7% →
PETAL 4.55 bits
4.5% →
TRAIN 5.28 bits
3.1% →
TASER 4.48 bits
2.9% →
SCOUT 5.26 bits
2.8% →
STARY 3.99 bits
2.4% →
SHALT 4.09 bits

Research on LUNGE

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

Optimal play

Opening with LUNGE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,807 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.81 guesses at best and is rank #1,743 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, 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 LUHNJ.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, LUNGE is a kind of move or thrust.

Synonyms thrust

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
LUNGE 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.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.0 of 5).

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).