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

PEROG

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative spelling of pierogi.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use PEROG in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.7% 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 PEROG performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PEROG 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 83.3% of games, misses completely in 16.7%, and leaves about 151 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,323 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe PEROG 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.

4.88 Entropy (bits)
151 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.7% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PEROG 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
#3,323 Rank among openers
Opening with PEROG 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 #3,323 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
63
3 guesses
923
4 guesses
1,175
5 guesses
179
6 guesses
14

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
28%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

PEROG can come back 98 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

398 answers
270 answers
173 answers
167 answers
137 answers
97 answers
84 answers
73 answers
56 answers
55 answers
49 answers
49 answers
47 answers
47 answers
45 answers
42 answers
40 answers
34 answers
33 answers
25 answers
24 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3E1R1O1G2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing PEROG

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PEROG:

17% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
11% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
7% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.7% →
SAINT 6.03 bits
11.3% →
SLANT 5.79 bits
7.3% →
SLANT 5.08 bits
7.0% →
AINEE 4.53 bits
5.7% →
TRAIN 5.15 bits
4.1% →
SHALT 4.84 bits
3.5% →
SLANT 4.39 bits
3.1% →
SCORN 4.40 bits
2.3% →
RATEL 3.90 bits
2.3% →
SAULT 4.85 bits

Research on PEROG

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

Optimal play

Opening with PEROG, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #3,144 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.80 guesses at best and is rank #1,323 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 3.67, 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).