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

TOGES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.9% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of toge

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 TOGES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TOGES 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 86.6% of games, misses completely in 13.4%, and leaves about 121 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,472 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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 TOGES 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.

5.07 Entropy (bits)
121 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 87% of evaluated openers
0.87 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TOGES 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#3,472 Rank among openers
Opening with TOGES left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.64 average. It ranks #3,472 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
60
3 guesses
912
4 guesses
1,195
5 guesses
174
6 guesses
11
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:
EOST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
32%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

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

317 answers
246 answers
148 answers
140 answers
124 answers
103 answers
96 answers
93 answers
91 answers
73 answers
60 answers
58 answers
48 answers
44 answers
43 answers
40 answers
37 answers
36 answers
35 answers
32 answers
30 answers
28 answers
26 answers
22 answers
19 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1O1G2E1S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing TOGES

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TOGES:

13% chance
Suggested:
CAIRN
10% chance
Suggested:
LEARE
6% chance
Suggested:
SHALY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.4%
CAIRN 5.89 bits
10.4%
LEARE 5.43 bits
6.2%
SHALY 5.10 bits
5.9%
RAINY 4.35 bits
5.2%
CAROL 5.05 bits
4.3%
FAITH 4.75 bits
4.0%
CLARY 4.69 bits
3.9%
PEARE 4.70 bits
3.8%
LEARE 4.79 bits
3.1%
STAIR 4.51 bits

Research on TOGES

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

Optimal play

Opening with TOGES, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,092 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 TOGES can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.66, 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 TOHJIHZ. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, TOGES is a kind of turn.

Synonyms DRESS apparel garment garb

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).