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

THAGI

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.3% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative spelling of thuggee.

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 THAGI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts THAGI 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 80.8% of games, misses completely in 19.2%, and leaves about 182 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,734 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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 THAGI 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.

4.62 Entropy (bits)
182 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 60% of evaluated openers
1.32 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How THAGI 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#5,734 Rank among openers
Opening with THAGI solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.68 average. It ranks #5,734 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
901
4 guesses
1,177
5 guesses
217
6 guesses
13
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
2 vowels
Common:
AIT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
26%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

THAGI can come back 90 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

456 answers
273 answers
255 answers
146 answers
122 answers
92 answers
90 answers
69 answers
68 answers
58 answers
49 answers
46 answers
45 answers
41 answers
38 answers
29 answers
29 answers
28 answers
28 answers
28 answers
24 answers
23 answers
21 answers
20 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1H4A1G2I1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing THAGI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing THAGI:

19% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
11% chance
Suggested:
SOREL
11% chance
Suggested:
SILER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.2%
SOLER 6.00 bits
11.5%
SOREL 5.47 bits
10.7%
SILER 5.26 bits
6.1%
SOREL 5.51 bits
5.1%
CLOSE 4.70 bits
3.9%
SALET 4.94 bits
3.8%
NOISE 4.45 bits
2.9%
COLEY 4.76 bits
2.9%
RAILE 4.41 bits
2.4%
ROULE 5.00 bits

Research on THAGI

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

Optimal play

Opening with THAGI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #6,994 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 THAGI can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it THAJEE. 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.