5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

SHOGS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 84.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of shog

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of shog

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 SHOGS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SHOGS 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 64.6% of games, misses completely in 35.4%, and leaves about 376 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,736 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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.

S___S S in the 1st position and S in the 5th position S__G_ S in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _H__S H in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

RAILE TALER PLATE CLADE CARTE TARSE
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.74 Entropy (bits)
376 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
84.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 13% of evaluated openers
2.21 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SHOGS 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#11,736 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SHOGS ranks #11,736 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
35
3 guesses
736
4 guesses
1,268
5 guesses
289
6 guesses
26
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
1 vowels
Common:
OS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
65%
Green tile
31%
All gray
35%

Feedback distribution

67 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

835
270
214
126
113
112
106
62
52
44
42
39
35
30
29
24
19
16
13
12
12
12
11
10
9
9
8
7
7
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SHOGS:

35% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
11% chance
Suggested:
TALER
9% chance
Suggested:
PLATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

35.4% →
RAILE 6.20 bits
11.5% →
TALER 5.36 bits
9.1% →
PLATE 5.43 bits
5.3% →
RAILE 5.47 bits
4.8% →
CLADE 4.50 bits
4.7% →
CARTE 5.18 bits
4.5% →
TARSE 5.31 bits
2.6% →
TRICE 5.09 bits
2.2% →
PEART 3.72 bits
1.9% →
CATER 4.42 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1H4O1G2S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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