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

MURGI

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

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

Meaning and pronunciation

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

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Use MURGI in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 89.1% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How MURGI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MURGI 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 74.9% of games, misses completely in 25.1%, and leaves about 259 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,195 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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.

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First-turn measures

All four describe MURGI 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.

4.25 Entropy (bits)
259 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.1% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MURGI 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#7,195 Rank among openers
Opening with MURGI solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.71 average. It ranks #7,195 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
48
3 guesses
865
4 guesses
1,190
5 guesses
233
6 guesses
18

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
IRU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
20%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

MURGI can come back 86 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

599 answers
329 answers
290 answers
136 answers
122 answers
86 answers
61 answers
60 answers
54 answers
53 answers
44 answers
42 answers
39 answers
30 answers
27 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
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13 answers
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11 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3U1R1G2I1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing MURGI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MURGI:

25% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
14% chance
Suggested:
SATED
12% chance
Suggested:
SLATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.1% →
SLATE 6.39 bits
13.8% →
SATED 5.30 bits
12.2% →
SLATE 5.32 bits
5.7% →
TRIED 4.76 bits
5.1% →
SLANT 5.36 bits
3.6% →
CASTE 4.97 bits
2.6% →
SALTY 4.21 bits
2.5% →
PEASE 4.77 bits
2.3% →
CRUET 4.77 bits
2.2% →
ALONE 5.04 bits

Research on MURGI

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

Optimal play

Opening with MURGI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.76 guesses and ranks #8,579 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.88 guesses at best and is rank #3,602 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, at or below the proven-optimal 3.76, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).