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

URGER

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

One who urges.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use URGER in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 90.1% 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 URGER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts URGER 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 77.1% of games, misses completely in 22.9%, and leaves about 236 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,516 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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 URGER 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.

4.28 Entropy (bits)
236 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.1% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How URGER 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#10,516 Rank among openers
Opening with URGER left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.77 average. It ranks #10,516 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
45
3 guesses
780
4 guesses
1,209
5 guesses
298
6 guesses
19

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ERU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
30%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

URGER can come back 80 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

546 answers
373 answers
194 answers
147 answers
122 answers
102 answers
100 answers
99 answers
67 answers
64 answers
53 answers
47 answers
37 answers
31 answers
31 answers
25 answers
23 answers
22 answers
20 answers
15 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
8 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

U1R1G2E1R1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing URGER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing URGER:

23% chance
Suggested:
SALON
16% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
8% chance
Suggested:
SONLY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.9% →
SALON 5.84 bits
15.6% →
SLANT 5.74 bits
8.1% →
SONLY 4.88 bits
6.2% →
ROAST 5.11 bits
5.1% →
SLANT 4.71 bits
4.3% →
STARE 4.51 bits
4.2% →
SAINT 4.46 bits
4.2% →
SAINT 3.71 bits
2.8% →
COAST 4.37 bits
2.7% →
SOILY 4.75 bits

Research on URGER

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

Optimal play

Opening with URGER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses and ranks #10,434 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with URGER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.77, at or below the proven-optimal 3.79, 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).