5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

TARGA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Proper noun

A locality in the City of Launceston, northern Tasmania, Australia.

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 TARGA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TARGA 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 78.1% of games, misses completely in 21.9%, and leaves about 204 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,753 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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.

T___A T in the 1st position and A in the 5th position T__G_ T in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _A__A A in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

SOCLE SOLED SHIEL SLANE BRACE LEAST
Words starting with T Words ending with A

First-turn measures

4.47 Entropy (bits)
204 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 50% of evaluated openers
1.48 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How TARGA 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#6,753 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, TARGA ranks #6,753 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
849
4 guesses
1,221
5 guesses
215
6 guesses
14
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ART

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
28%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

88 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

516
265
206
200
120
96
87
74
69
69
52
44
44
41
35
33
23
23
23
20
19
19
17
16
15
14
14
13
12
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TARGA:

22% chance
Suggested:
SOCLE
11% chance
Suggested:
SOLED
9% chance
Suggested:
SHIEL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.9% →
SOCLE 5.93 bits
11.2% →
SOLED 4.96 bits
8.7% →
SHIEL 5.34 bits
8.5% →
SLANE 5.49 bits
5.1% →
BRACE 4.62 bits
4.1% →
SOCLE 4.83 bits
3.7% →
LEAST 4.87 bits
3.1% →
SONCE 4.79 bits
2.9% →
SOILY 4.96 bits
2.9% →
SENOR 4.42 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1A1R1G2A1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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