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

TRAGS

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

No dictionary definition for TRAGS is recorded in our sourced data.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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Use TRAGS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 94.9% 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 TRAGS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TRAGS 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 85.2% of games, misses completely in 14.8%, and leaves about 122 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #923 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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 TRAGS 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.

5.11 Entropy (bits)
122 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.9% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TRAGS 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#923 Rank among openers
Opening with TRAGS left 1 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 3.60 average. It ranks #923 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
62
3 guesses
1,003
4 guesses
1,122
5 guesses
153
6 guesses
13

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ARST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
30%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

TRAGS can come back 102 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

352 answers
183 answers
175 answers
160 answers
123 answers
101 answers
87 answers
83 answers
74 answers
64 answers
62 answers
56 answers
54 answers
51 answers
44 answers
39 answers
39 answers
33 answers
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27 answers
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18 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1R1A1G2S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing TRAGS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TRAGS:

15% chance
Suggested:
CLONE
8% chance
Suggested:
CLONE
7% chance
Suggested:
POLEY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.8% →
CLONE 5.93 bits
7.7% →
CLONE 5.31 bits
7.3% →
POLEY 4.72 bits
6.7% →
SPILE 5.32 bits
5.2% →
LITHE 5.03 bits
4.2% →
COLEY 4.61 bits
3.6% →
DRICE 4.69 bits
3.5% →
STIPE 4.40 bits
3.1% →
CLINE 4.45 bits
2.7% →
SOREE 4.42 bits

Research on TRAGS

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

Optimal play

Opening with TRAGS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,515 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.75 guesses at best and is rank #286 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.60, 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).