VOGUE
Yes, VOGUE was the Wordle answer on March 7, 2026 (Wordle #1722).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /vəʊɡ/
- Noun
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The prevailing fashion or style.
“Miniskirts were the vogue in the '60s.”
- Noun
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Popularity or a current craze.
“Hula hoops are no longer in vogue.”
- Verb
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To dance in the vogue dance style.
- Verb
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To light a cigarette for (someone).
“Vogue me up.”
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
First attested in 1565. Borrowed from Middle French vogue (“wave, course of success”), from Old French vogue, from voguer (“to row, sway, set sail”), from Old Saxon wogōn (“to sway, rock”), var. of wagōn (“to float, fluctuate”), from Proto-Germanic *wagōną (“to sway, fluctuate”) and Proto-Germanic *wēgaz (“water in motion”), from Proto-Germanic *weganą (“to move, carry, weigh”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to move, go, transport”) (compare way).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it VOHG.
Related meanings
In a sentence
The French style of dress is in vogue now.
It's kind of in vogue, but the price is too much!
Use VOGUE in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 90.4% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: March 7, 2026 (#1722).
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See what the public sample says →VOGUE in Connections
2 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #163
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VOGUE appeared in DANCE MOVES (blue group).
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· Puzzle #23
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VOGUE appeared in MAGAZINES (blue group).
How VOGUE performs as a guess
VOGUE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 80.0% of games, misses completely in 20.0%, and leaves about 229 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,342 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe VOGUE 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How VOGUE 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches VOGUE in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
VOGUE can come back 90 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for VOGUE; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
Try next
Strategy after playing VOGUE
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to VOGUE.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing VOGUE:
Research on VOGUE
Game-tree analysis and word research for VOGUE, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with VOGUE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses and ranks #10,227 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 VOGUE 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- VOGUE sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 5 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.3 of 5).
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).