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

TUGRA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.4% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of tughra.

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 TUGRA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TUGRA 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 156 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,073 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 TUGRA 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.

4.83 Entropy (bits)
156 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 73% of evaluated openers
1.12 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TUGRA 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#3,073 Rank among openers
Opening with TUGRA left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.64 average. It ranks #3,073 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
64
3 guesses
951
4 guesses
1,124
5 guesses
200
6 guesses
14
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ARTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
24%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

TUGRA can come back 105 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

375 answers
293 answers
223 answers
151 answers
142 answers
128 answers
78 answers
67 answers
63 answers
50 answers
45 answers
44 answers
40 answers
40 answers
39 answers
32 answers
32 answers
30 answers
29 answers
27 answers
26 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
15 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1U1G2R1A1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing TUGRA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TUGRA:

16% chance
Suggested:
SOCLE
12% chance
Suggested:
SLICE
9% chance
Suggested:
POISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.8%
SOCLE 5.94 bits
12.3%
SLICE 5.54 bits
9.4%
POISE 5.01 bits
6.4%
CRIER 4.47 bits
6.0%
SHIEL 5.39 bits
5.4%
SLICE 5.05 bits
3.3%
SLICE 4.90 bits
2.8%
SLIME 4.11 bits
2.7%
SLIDE 5.00 bits
2.1%
SOREE 4.38 bits

Research on TUGRA

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

Optimal play

Opening with TUGRA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,748 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.81 guesses at best and is rank #1,649 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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 TYOOGRUH. 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.