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

ORGUE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Any of a number of long, thick pieces of timber, pointed and shod with iron, and suspended, each by a separate rope, over a gateway, to be let down in case of attack.

Noun

A piece of ordnance, consisting of a number of musket barrels arranged so that a match or train may connect with all their touchholes, and a discharge be secured almost or quite simultaneously.

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 ORGUE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ORGUE 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 85.8% of games, misses completely in 14.2%, and leaves about 136 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,032 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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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Useful pattern pages

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

O___E O in the 1st position and E in the 5th position O__U_ O in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _R__E R in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe ORGUE 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.

4.99 Entropy (bits)
136 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 83% of evaluated openers
0.96 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ORGUE 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#5,032 Rank among openers
Opening with ORGUE solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.67 average. It ranks #5,032 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
67
3 guesses
898
4 guesses
1,152
5 guesses
218
6 guesses
19
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
3 vowels
Common:
EORU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
33%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

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

336 answers
239 answers
201 answers
169 answers
143 answers
142 answers
94 answers
93 answers
66 answers
51 answers
46 answers
41 answers
37 answers
37 answers
33 answers
32 answers
31 answers
31 answers
30 answers
30 answers
26 answers
26 answers
21 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1R1G2U1E1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

SLATY SLANT LEAST SHIRT SALTY LEMON

Strategy after playing ORGUE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ORGUE:

14% chance
Suggested:
SLATY
10% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
8% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.2% →
SLATY 5.78 bits
10.1% →
SLANT 5.55 bits
8.5% →
SLANT 5.14 bits
7.1% →
LEAST 4.38 bits
6.0% →
SLANT 5.18 bits
6.0% →
SLANT 4.89 bits
4.0% →
SHIRT 4.81 bits
3.9% →
SALTY 4.40 bits
2.8% →
SLANT 4.22 bits
2.1% →
LEMON 4.16 bits

Research on ORGUE

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

Optimal play

Opening with ORGUE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,808 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with ORGUE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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 AWRG. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
ORGUE sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

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).