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

TAIGS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of taig

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

Use TAIGS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 94.2% 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 TAIGS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TAIGS 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 83.2% of games, misses completely in 16.8%, and leaves about 139 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,060 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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.

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First-turn measures

All four describe TAIGS 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.

5.00 Entropy (bits)
139 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.2% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TAIGS 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#2,060 Rank among openers
Opening with TAIGS solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.62 average. It ranks #2,060 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
69
3 guesses
969
4 guesses
1,119
5 guesses
181
6 guesses
16

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
32%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

TAIGS can come back 106 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

401 answers
226 answers
156 answers
134 answers
119 answers
105 answers
91 answers
79 answers
77 answers
66 answers
57 answers
52 answers
48 answers
46 answers
45 answers
44 answers
40 answers
39 answers
36 answers
31 answers
31 answers
24 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1A1I1G2S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing TAIGS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TAIGS:

17% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
9% chance
Suggested:
BLARE
7% chance
Suggested:
PROLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.8% →
DROLE 5.89 bits
9.5% →
BLARE 5.41 bits
6.5% →
PROLE 5.27 bits
5.6% →
LINER 5.18 bits
5.0% →
MORNE 4.72 bits
4.4% →
ROUET 5.35 bits
3.8% →
CHARE 4.69 bits
3.3% →
CRONE 4.77 bits
3.2% →
ROUET 4.62 bits
2.8% →
ALERT 4.81 bits

Research on TAIGS

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

Optimal play

Opening with TAIGS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #2,899 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 #939 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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).