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

TENGE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈtɛŋɡeɪ/

Noun

The basic monetary unit of Kazakhstan; subdivided into tiyin.

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 TENGE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TENGE 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 76.1% of games, misses completely in 23.9%, and leaves about 207 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,331 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

T___E T in the 1st position and E in the 5th position T__G_ T in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _E__E E in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TENGE 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.

4.61 Entropy (bits)
207 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 59% of evaluated openers
1.33 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TENGE 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#7,331 Rank among openers
Opening with TENGE left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.71 average. It ranks #7,331 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
828
4 guesses
1,223
5 guesses
228
6 guesses
15
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
2 vowels
Common:
ENT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
37%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

TENGE can come back 95 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

567 answers
224 answers
179 answers
166 answers
133 answers
76 answers
68 answers
65 answers
62 answers
62 answers
50 answers
48 answers
48 answers
45 answers
44 answers
41 answers
30 answers
25 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
19 answers
19 answers
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18 answers
17 answers
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15 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1E1N1G2E1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

CAROL ROAST SOLAR SORAL CLARY SAUCY

Strategy after playing TENGE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TENGE:

24% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
9% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
8% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.9% →
CAROL 5.98 bits
9.4% →
ROAST 5.33 bits
7.5% →
SOLAR 5.01 bits
7.0% →
SOLAR 4.89 bits
5.6% →
SORAL 4.86 bits
3.2% →
CLARY 5.06 bits
2.9% →
SOLAR 4.71 bits
2.7% →
SORAL 4.53 bits
2.6% →
SOLAR 4.83 bits
2.6% →
SAUCY 4.31 bits

Research on TENGE

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

Optimal play

Opening with TENGE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,070 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.86 guesses at best and is rank #3,279 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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 TEHNJ. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, TENGE is a kind of unit.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TENGE 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.

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).