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

TOGAE

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of toga

Alternative forms: togæ, togas

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

Use TOGAE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 95.9% 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 TOGAE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TOGAE 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 90.4% of games, misses completely in 9.6%, and leaves about 98 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,113 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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 TOGAE 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.

5.35 Entropy (bits)
98 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.9% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TOGAE 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#4,113 Rank among openers
Opening with TOGAE 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 3.65 average. It ranks #4,113 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
81
3 guesses
883
4 guesses
1,165
5 guesses
210
6 guesses
12

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AEOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
90%
Green tile
41%
All gray
10%

Feedback distribution

TOGAE can come back 110 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

228 answers
215 answers
213 answers
107 answers
98 answers
95 answers
85 answers
83 answers
83 answers
81 answers
72 answers
57 answers
44 answers
44 answers
42 answers
42 answers
41 answers
40 answers
37 answers
37 answers
32 answers
29 answers
27 answers
25 answers
23 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
19 answers
19 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1O1G2A1E1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing TOGAE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TOGAE:

10% chance
Suggested:
SLIMY
9% chance
Suggested:
SILER
9% chance
Suggested:
SNARL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

9.6% →
SLIMY 5.54 bits
9.0% →
SILER 5.30 bits
8.9% →
SNARL 4.98 bits
4.5% →
SCORN 4.80 bits
4.1% →
SIREN 4.55 bits
4.0% →
SLART 4.05 bits
3.6% →
RESET 4.78 bits
3.5% →
SHIRT 4.79 bits
3.5% →
SAINT 4.35 bits
3.4% →
MOLDY 3.84 bits

Research on TOGAE

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

Optimal play

Opening with TOGAE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,784 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 TOGAE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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).