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

TRAGU

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

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

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

Meaning and pronunciation

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

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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 TRAGU performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TRAGU 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 84.2% of games, misses completely in 15.8%, and leaves about 137 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,062 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe TRAGU 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.

4.93 Entropy (bits)
137 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 79% of evaluated openers
1.02 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TRAGU 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#2,062 Rank among openers
Opening with TRAGU left 3 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 3.62 average. It ranks #2,062 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
990
4 guesses
1,124
5 guesses
173
6 guesses
13
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:
ARTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
29%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

TRAGU can come back 93 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

375 answers
211 answers
176 answers
145 answers
142 answers
113 answers
111 answers
87 answers
82 answers
66 answers
65 answers
52 answers
49 answers
44 answers
39 answers
38 answers
35 answers
32 answers
28 answers
27 answers
26 answers
25 answers
23 answers
22 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1R1A1G2U1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing TRAGU

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TRAGU:

16% chance
Suggested:
SOCLE
9% chance
Suggested:
CLINE
7% chance
Suggested:
SOLED

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.8%
SOCLE 5.94 bits
8.9%
CLINE 5.20 bits
7.4%
SOLED 4.89 bits
6.1%
SLICE 5.01 bits
6.0%
SHIEL 5.39 bits
4.8%
PARER 4.48 bits
4.7%
SLICE 5.21 bits
3.7%
SPICE 4.73 bits
3.5%
SLICE 4.69 bits
2.8%
SONCE 4.64 bits

Research on TRAGU

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

Optimal play

Opening with TRAGU, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #4,138 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.80 guesses at best and is rank #1,435 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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 TRAGOO. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.