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VIGIA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 81.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A warning on a navigational chart indicating a reef or other hazard which has been reported but which has not been confirmed to exist, or whose exact location is unknown.

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 VIGIA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts VIGIA 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 68.0% of games, misses completely in 32.0%, and leaves about 432 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,321 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.93 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

V___A V in the 1st position and A in the 5th position V__I_ V in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _I__A I in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in VIGIA.

First-turn measures

All four describe VIGIA 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)
432 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
81.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 6% of evaluated openers
2.53 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How VIGIA 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.

3.93 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.76 Spread of game lengths
#14,321 Rank among openers
Opening with VIGIA solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.76 means those games clustered within about 0.76 of a guess of the 3.93 average. It ranks #14,321 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
576
4 guesses
1,239
5 guesses
456
6 guesses
31
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

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AI

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
20%
All gray
32%

Feedback distribution

VIGIA can come back 69 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

760 answers
603 answers
198 answers
123 answers
89 answers
73 answers
62 answers
52 answers
42 answers
42 answers
40 answers
39 answers
33 answers
23 answers
19 answers
16 answers
13 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
8 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

V4I1G2I1A1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

SOREL TARSE STURE RONTE LOURE CRUET

Strategy after playing VIGIA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing VIGIA:

32% chance
Suggested:
SOREL
25% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
8% chance
Suggested:
STURE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.0% →
SOREL 5.98 bits
25.4% →
TARSE 5.49 bits
8.3% →
STURE 4.96 bits
5.2% →
RONTE 4.49 bits
3.7% →
LOURE 5.30 bits
3.1% →
CRUET 4.90 bits
2.6% →
GRONE 4.51 bits
2.2% →
SLANT 4.10 bits
1.8% →
PLORE 4.44 bits
1.8% →
SENOR 3.77 bits

Research on VIGIA

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

Optimal play

Opening with VIGIA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.94 guesses and ranks #14,343 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.07 guesses at best and is rank #6,971 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.93, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it VEEJUH. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
VIGIA sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).