5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet F tier opener

OUTGO

OUTGO is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 85.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˌaʊtˈɡəʊ//ˌaʊtˈɡoʊ//ˈaʊtɡəʊ/

Noun

A cost, expenditure, or outlay.

Noun

The act or process of going out; (countable) an instance of this; an outgoing.

Verb

To go further than (someone or something); to exceed, to go beyond, to surpass.

Verb

To experience, go through, or undergo (something).

Alternative forms: out-go

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

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 OUTGO performs as a guess

OUTGO is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 67.0% of games, misses completely in 33.0%, and leaves about 352 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,524 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 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.

Useful pattern pages

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

O___O O in the 1st position and O in the 5th position _U__O U in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

Try next

RAILE REAST CARLE SLANE SMILE TARSE
Words starting with O Words ending with O

First-turn measures

3.79 Entropy (bits)
352 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
85.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 14% of evaluated openers
2.16 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How OUTGO 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#12,524 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, OUTGO ranks #12,524 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
38
3 guesses
714
4 guesses
1,243
5 guesses
328
6 guesses
28
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
OTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
67%
Green tile
18%
All gray
33%

Example solver route

R O A T E
P U N C H
O U T D O
O U T G O

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches OUTGO in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

66 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

777
291
289
112
105
96
87
68
60
45
35
34
34
30
23
23
23
19
18
16
14
13
12
7
7
7
7
6
6
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OUTGO:

33% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
12% chance
Suggested:
REAST
12% chance
Suggested:
CARLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

33.0% →
RAILE 6.13 bits
12.3% →
REAST 5.68 bits
12.3% →
CARLE 5.41 bits
4.7% →
SLANE 5.07 bits
4.5% →
SMILE 4.36 bits
4.1% →
RAILE 5.30 bits
3.7% →
TARSE 4.57 bits
2.9% →
EARLY 4.67 bits
2.5% →
CRANE 4.39 bits
1.9% →
SLOOP 3.86 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1U1T1G2O1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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