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

PORGE

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

No dictionary definition for PORGE 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 PORGE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 94.1% 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 PORGE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PORGE 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 140 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,219 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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 PORGE 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.

5.06 Entropy (bits)
140 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.1% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PORGE 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#1,219 Rank among openers
Opening with PORGE solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.60 average. It ranks #1,219 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
71
3 guesses
980
4 guesses
1,122
5 guesses
172
6 guesses
9

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
38%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

PORGE can come back 112 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

398 answers
213 answers
176 answers
154 answers
137 answers
109 answers
109 answers
82 answers
58 answers
55 answers
47 answers
47 answers
40 answers
37 answers
33 answers
27 answers
26 answers
25 answers
25 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
23 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3O1R1G2E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing PORGE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PORGE:

17% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
9% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
7% chance
Suggested:
STAIR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.7% →
SAINT 6.03 bits
8.9% →
SLANT 5.52 bits
7.4% →
STAIR 4.34 bits
6.5% →
SAULT 5.38 bits
5.7% →
TRAIN 5.15 bits
4.6% →
SLANT 5.05 bits
4.6% →
SLANT 4.44 bits
3.4% →
ARSON 4.30 bits
2.4% →
SAULT 4.90 bits
2.3% →
SAULT 4.85 bits

Research on PORGE

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

Optimal play

Opening with PORGE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.64 guesses and ranks #1,093 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.77 guesses at best and is rank #692 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.60, at or below the proven-optimal 3.64, 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).