5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

URGES

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

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

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of urge

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of urge

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 URGES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts URGES 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 85.1% of games, misses completely in 14.9%, and leaves about 137 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,917 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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.

U___S U in the 1st position and S in the 5th position U__E_ U in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _R__S R in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TALON OLATE SLANT CAROL MOULT TOILE
Words starting with U Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.89 Entropy (bits)
137 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 77% of evaluated openers
1.06 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How URGES 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#5,917 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, URGES ranks #5,917 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
68
3 guesses
855
4 guesses
1,196
5 guesses
220
6 guesses
14
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ERSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
29%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

97 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

351
244
179
137
125
124
105
92
91
90
58
57
53
50
40
37
35
30
26
25
25
21
20
17
17
15
12
12
12
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing URGES:

15% chance
Suggested:
TALON
10% chance
Suggested:
OLATE
8% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.9% →
TALON 5.80 bits
10.3% →
OLATE 5.28 bits
7.6% →
SLANT 5.13 bits
5.8% →
CAROL 5.15 bits
5.3% →
MOULT 4.71 bits
5.3% →
SLANT 4.97 bits
4.5% →
TOILE 3.36 bits
3.9% →
TRAIN 4.16 bits
3.9% →
ALONE 4.08 bits
3.8% →
TEARY 4.68 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

U1R1G2E1S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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