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

VEGGO

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈvɛd͡ʒəʊ/

Noun

A vegetarian.

Adjective

Vegetarian; suitable for vegetarians.

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

Use VEGGO in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 83.6% 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 VEGGO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts VEGGO 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 71.3% of games, misses completely in 28.7%, and leaves about 391 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,355 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.94 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 VEGGO 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.

3.42 Entropy (bits)
391 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How VEGGO 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.

3.94 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#14,355 Rank among openers
Opening with VEGGO left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.94 average. It ranks #14,355 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
579
4 guesses
1,250
5 guesses
458
6 guesses
24

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
19%
All gray
29%

Feedback distribution

VEGGO can come back 59 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

685 answers
517 answers
360 answers
180 answers
139 answers
69 answers
37 answers
33 answers
33 answers
31 answers
28 answers
26 answers
21 answers
19 answers
16 answers
14 answers
13 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

V4E1G2G2O1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Strategy after playing VEGGO

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing VEGGO:

29% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
22% chance
Suggested:
STAIR
15% chance
Suggested:
ROOST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.7% →
SAINT 5.94 bits
21.7% →
STAIR 5.47 bits
15.1% →
ROOST 5.12 bits
7.6% →
SLART 5.03 bits
5.8% →
SONAR 4.47 bits
2.9% →
SLANT 4.97 bits
1.6% →
TRADE 4.30 bits
1.4% →
STAIR 4.12 bits
1.4% →
RAILE 4.33 bits
1.3% →
GROWL 3.86 bits

Research on VEGGO

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

Optimal play

Opening with VEGGO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.94 guesses and ranks #14,366 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.10 guesses at best and is rank #7,150 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.94, at or below the proven-optimal 3.94, 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).