5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet B tier opener

TONGA

TONGA is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 93.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A light, two-wheeled, horse-drawn carriage used for transportation in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.

Noun

A drug useful in neuralgia, derived from a Fijian plant supposed to be of the aroid genus Epipremnum.

Alternative forms: tanga

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

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 TONGA performs as a guess

TONGA is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 83.1% of games, misses completely in 16.9%, and leaves about 160 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,334 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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___A T in the 1st position and A in the 5th position T__G_ T in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _O__A O in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

SLIER CARLE SHIER SHALE CRISE SWOLE
Words starting with T Words ending with A

First-turn measures

4.86 Entropy (bits)
160 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 75% of evaluated openers
1.09 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How TONGA 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#2,334 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, TONGA ranks #2,334 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
64
3 guesses
953
4 guesses
1,142
5 guesses
183
6 guesses
10
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
2 vowels
Common:
ANOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
26%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

R O A T E
A P T L Y
T O N G A

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches TONGA in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

106 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

399
336
147
140
124
105
83
66
53
51
51
50
49
45
39
36
34
33
28
27
25
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TONGA:

17% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
14% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
6% chance
Suggested:
SHIER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.9% →
SLIER 6.12 bits
14.2% →
CARLE 5.53 bits
6.2% →
SHIER 5.36 bits
5.9% →
SHALE 4.95 bits
5.3% →
CRISE 5.23 bits
4.5% →
SWOLE 4.37 bits
3.5% →
SIDER 5.16 bits
2.8% →
SIREN 4.47 bits
2.2% →
SPIRE 4.30 bits
2.2% →
SWORE 4.18 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1O1N1G2A1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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