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

SMORG

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

No dictionary definition for SMORG is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 91.7% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 SMORG performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SMORG 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 78.4% of games, misses completely in 21.6%, and leaves about 197 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,244 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe SMORG 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.

4.55 Entropy (bits)
197 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 55% of evaluated openers
1.39 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SMORG 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#5,244 Rank among openers
Opening with SMORG 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 3.67 average. It ranks #5,244 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
896
4 guesses
1,179
5 guesses
210
6 guesses
14
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ORS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
29%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

SMORG can come back 86 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

512 answers
295 answers
181 answers
150 answers
105 answers
93 answers
89 answers
86 answers
69 answers
65 answers
52 answers
50 answers
47 answers
45 answers
42 answers
37 answers
35 answers
32 answers
30 answers
24 answers
19 answers
18 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1M3O1R1G2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing SMORG

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SMORG:

22% chance
Suggested:
LIANE
12% chance
Suggested:
CADIE
8% chance
Suggested:
LEANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.6%
LIANE 6.10 bits
12.4%
CADIE 5.41 bits
7.6%
LEANT 5.42 bits
6.3%
LEANT 5.01 bits
4.4%
PALET 5.32 bits
3.9%
LIANE 5.46 bits
3.7%
CORER 4.48 bits
3.6%
MAILE 5.06 bits
2.9%
BLATE 4.56 bits
2.7%
THALE 4.80 bits

Research on SMORG

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

Optimal play

Opening with SMORG, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,791 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.81 guesses at best and is rank #1,627 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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 SMAWRG. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.