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

WIGAN

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A canvas-like cotton fabric, often coated with latex rubber, used to stiffen and protect the lower part of trousers, dresses, etc.

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 WIGAN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WIGAN 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 76.6% of games, misses completely in 23.4%, and leaves about 248 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,118 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

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Useful pattern pages

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

W___N W in the 1st position and N in the 5th position W__A_ W in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _I__N I in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe WIGAN 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.

4.33 Entropy (bits)
248 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 40% of evaluated openers
1.62 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How WIGAN 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#9,118 Rank among openers
Opening with WIGAN left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.74 average. It ranks #9,118 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
786
4 guesses
1,236
5 guesses
266
6 guesses
11
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
24%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

WIGAN can come back 95 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

556 answers
416 answers
198 answers
133 answers
102 answers
99 answers
75 answers
70 answers
69 answers
60 answers
42 answers
40 answers
29 answers
26 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
20 answers
20 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4I1G2A1N1
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 CRISE TOUSE SLYER STOLE

Strategy after playing WIGAN

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WIGAN:

23% chance
Suggested:
SOREL
18% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
8% chance
Suggested:
CRISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.4% →
SOREL 6.04 bits
17.5% →
TARSE 5.57 bits
8.3% →
CRISE 5.32 bits
5.6% →
TOUSE 5.19 bits
4.3% →
SLYER 4.68 bits
4.2% →
STOLE 4.43 bits
3.2% →
CASTE 4.30 bits
2.9% →
ROULE 5.25 bits
2.9% →
SLART 4.20 bits
2.5% →
TRONE 4.38 bits

Research on WIGAN

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

Optimal play

Opening with WIGAN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.76 guesses and ranks #8,607 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.87 guesses at best and is rank #3,455 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.74, at or below the proven-optimal 3.76, 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 WIHGUHN. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
WIGAN sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 3 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.

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).