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

SPLOG

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.9% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /splɒɡ//splɔɡ//splɑɡ/

Noun

A fake blog, usually reusing content from other sources in order to generate link spam.

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 SPLOG performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SPLOG 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 76.2% of games, misses completely in 23.8%, and leaves about 217 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,486 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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 SPLOG 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.

4.44 Entropy (bits)
217 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 48% of evaluated openers
1.51 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SPLOG 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.65 Spread of game lengths
#1,486 Rank among openers
Opening with SPLOG solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.65 means those games clustered within about 0.65 of a guess of the 3.61 average. It ranks #1,486 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
975
4 guesses
1,182
5 guesses
138
6 guesses
9
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:
LOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
26%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

SPLOG can come back 83 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

566 answers
232 answers
220 answers
150 answers
120 answers
114 answers
105 answers
78 answers
67 answers
55 answers
50 answers
48 answers
48 answers
46 answers
41 answers
38 answers
32 answers
29 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
14 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1P3L1O1G2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing SPLOG

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SPLOG:

24% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
10% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
9% chance
Suggested:
CRATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.8%
TIARE 6.30 bits
9.8%
TIARE 5.47 bits
9.3%
CRATE 5.42 bits
6.3%
THANE 5.34 bits
5.1%
TIARE 5.38 bits
4.8%
RAINE 5.52 bits
4.4%
PRICE 5.39 bits
3.3%
COATE 4.39 bits
2.8%
MANOR 4.57 bits
2.3%
RAILE 4.52 bits

Research on SPLOG

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

Optimal play

Opening with SPLOG, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #4,099 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.78 guesses at best and is rank #812 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.61, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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 SPLAHG. 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.