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

SLOGS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of slog

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 SLOGS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SLOGS 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 71.6% of games, misses completely in 28.4%, and leaves about 282 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,894 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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.
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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 _L__S L in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe SLOGS 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.

4.05 Entropy (bits)
282 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 25% of evaluated openers
1.90 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SLOGS 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#9,894 Rank among openers
Opening with SLOGS left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.76 average. It ranks #9,894 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
34
3 guesses
808
4 guesses
1,224
5 guesses
264
6 guesses
23
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
LOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
34%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

SLOGS can come back 68 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

675 answers
242 answers
242 answers
189 answers
115 answers
100 answers
100 answers
93 answers
69 answers
56 answers
49 answers
39 answers
35 answers
29 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers
15 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1L1O1G2S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

TIARE TONER RAILE PARTE BRACE TRADE

Strategy after playing SLOGS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SLOGS:

28% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
10% chance
Suggested:
TONER
10% chance
Suggested:
RAILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.4% →
TIARE 6.26 bits
10.2% →
TONER 5.38 bits
10.2% →
RAILE 5.31 bits
8.0% →
PARTE 5.48 bits
4.8% →
TIARE 5.43 bits
4.2% →
TIARE 5.37 bits
4.2% →
BRACE 4.90 bits
3.9% →
TRADE 4.67 bits
2.9% →
LOYAL 4.18 bits
2.4% →
PEART 3.77 bits

Research on SLOGS

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

Optimal play

Opening with SLOGS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,920 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.94 guesses at best and is rank #5,019 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.76, at or below the proven-optimal 3.80, 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 SLAHGZ. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SLOGS is a kind of work or walk.

Synonyms pad slug TRAMP

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SLOGS 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 relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).