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

SWAGS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 84.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of swag

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of swag

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 SWAGS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SWAGS 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 67.2% of games, misses completely in 32.8%, and leaves about 372 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,441 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 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 _W__S W in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe SWAGS 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.

3.64 Entropy (bits)
372 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
84.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 10% of evaluated openers
2.30 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SWAGS 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.

3.82 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#12,441 Rank among openers
Opening with SWAGS left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.82 average. It ranks #12,441 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
695
4 guesses
1,276
5 guesses
320
6 guesses
20
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:
AS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
67%
Green tile
30%
All gray
33%

Feedback distribution

SWAGS can come back 62 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

778 answers
412 answers
197 answers
146 answers
109 answers
105 answers
82 answers
67 answers
52 answers
51 answers
46 answers
46 answers
28 answers
25 answers
19 answers
17 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1W4A1G2S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

TOILE TALER TRICE RUOTE DRONE LOURE

Strategy after playing SWAGS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SWAGS:

33% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
17% chance
Suggested:
TALER
8% chance
Suggested:
TOILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.8% →
TOILE 5.96 bits
17.4% →
TALER 5.46 bits
8.3% →
TOILE 5.03 bits
6.1% →
TRICE 5.13 bits
4.6% →
TOILE 5.30 bits
4.4% →
RUOTE 5.43 bits
3.5% →
DRONE 5.12 bits
2.8% →
TRICE 3.78 bits
2.2% →
LOURE 4.40 bits
2.1% →
ALGAE 4.84 bits

Research on SWAGS

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

Optimal play

Opening with SWAGS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.87 guesses and ranks #13,260 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 SWAGS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.82, at or below the proven-optimal 3.87, 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 SWAGZ. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SWAGS is a kind of valuable or possession.

Synonyms PRIZE flag reel BOOTY loot sag

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SWAGS 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.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.3 of 5).

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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).