5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

WENGE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈwɛnɡeɪ/

Noun

A very dark and hard tropical timber, from the tree species Millettia laurentii.

Noun

A reddish shade of brown associated with this wood.

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 WENGE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WENGE 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 67.0% of games, misses completely in 33.0%, and leaves about 330 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,267 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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.

W___E W in the 1st position and E in the 5th position W__G_ W in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _E__E E in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SLART SOLAR ROAST SAUCY LATER TRAIL
Words starting with W Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.04 Entropy (bits)
330 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 24% of evaluated openers
1.91 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WENGE 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#11,267 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WENGE ranks #11,267 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
729
4 guesses
1,257
5 guesses
296
6 guesses
21
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
67%
Green tile
35%
All gray
33%

Feedback distribution

84 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

779
229
218
168
121
78
70
59
50
43
41
37
32
32
28
25
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8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WENGE:

33% chance
Suggested:
SLART
10% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR
9% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

33.0% →
SLART 5.93 bits
9.7% →
SOLAR 5.13 bits
9.2% →
SLART 5.27 bits
7.1% →
ROAST 5.29 bits
5.1% →
SLART 4.93 bits
3.3% →
SOLAR 4.76 bits
3.0% →
SAUCY 4.45 bits
2.5% →
LATER 4.38 bits
2.1% →
SLART 4.37 bits
1.8% →
ROAST 4.07 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4E1N1G2E1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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