5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

TOGUE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /toʊɡ/

Noun

Lake trout, Salvelinus namaycush, a freshwater char of northern North America.

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 TOGUE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TOGUE 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 86.0% of games, misses completely in 14.0%, and leaves about 136 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,233 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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___E T in the 1st position and E in the 5th position T__U_ T in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _O__E O in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

CLARY ARIEL SNARY ARSON SURLY SHIRT
Words starting with T Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.02 Entropy (bits)
136 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 84% of evaluated openers
0.93 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How TOGUE 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#6,233 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, TOGUE ranks #6,233 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
70
3 guesses
857
4 guesses
1,174
5 guesses
238
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

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
EOTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
38%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

109 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

329
295
153
148
131
127
118
93
52
46
44
43
41
39
37
34
33
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26
24
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14
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TOGUE:

14% chance
Suggested:
CLARY
13% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
6% chance
Suggested:
SNARY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.0% →
CLARY 5.69 bits
12.5% →
ARIEL 5.17 bits
6.5% →
SNARY 4.59 bits
6.3% →
ARSON 5.22 bits
5.6% →
SURLY 4.51 bits
5.4% →
SHIRT 5.12 bits
5.0% →
SLART 5.06 bits
3.9% →
CLARY 4.67 bits
2.2% →
SNARE 3.65 bits
2.0% →
SPORT 4.28 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1O1G2U1E1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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