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

SOGER

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈsəʊd͡ʒə//ˈsoʊd͡ʒɚ/

Noun

A poor or lazy hand on a sailing vessel.

Noun

Pronunciation spelling of soldier, representing nonstandardly-pronounced English, sojer.

Verb

To shirk; to neglect one's work.

Alternative forms: sojer

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

Use SOGER in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 95.4% 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 SOGER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SOGER 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 87.0% of games, misses completely in 13.0%, and leaves about 111 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,700 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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 SOGER 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.

5.27 Entropy (bits)
111 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.4% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SOGER 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#2,700 Rank among openers
Opening with SOGER left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It ranks #2,700 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
71
3 guesses
936
4 guesses
1,144
5 guesses
192
6 guesses
10

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EORS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
41%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

SOGER can come back 109 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

310 answers
231 answers
146 answers
129 answers
116 answers
98 answers
84 answers
84 answers
73 answers
69 answers
67 answers
63 answers
48 answers
46 answers
45 answers
44 answers
41 answers
34 answers
32 answers
27 answers
27 answers
25 answers
25 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1O1G2E1R1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing SOGER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SOGER:

13% chance
Suggested:
PLAIT
10% chance
Suggested:
DEALT
6% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.0% →
PLAIT 5.69 bits
9.7% →
DEALT 5.61 bits
6.1% →
TRAIL 5.10 bits
5.4% →
PEART 4.68 bits
4.9% →
STALK 4.67 bits
4.1% →
HOTLY 3.93 bits
3.5% →
LAIDE 3.40 bits
3.5% →
TALON 4.89 bits
3.1% →
ALIEN 4.31 bits
2.9% →
PLATE 4.65 bits

Research on SOGER

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

Optimal play

Opening with SOGER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #917 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with SOGER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.63, 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).