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

WODGY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 82.4% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

bulky, solid

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 WODGY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WODGY 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 61.8% of games, misses completely in 38.2%, and leaves about 417 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,531 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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First-turn measures

All four describe WODGY 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.

3.77 Entropy (bits)
417 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
82.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 14% of evaluated openers
2.18 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How WODGY 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#9,531 Rank among openers
Opening with WODGY left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.75 average. It ranks #9,531 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
754
4 guesses
1,271
5 guesses
270
6 guesses
4
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
1 vowels
Common:
O

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
62%
Green tile
31%
All gray
38%

Feedback distribution

WODGY can come back 85 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

908 answers
249 answers
188 answers
140 answers
137 answers
119 answers
49 answers
42 answers
41 answers
40 answers
39 answers
33 answers
30 answers
30 answers
27 answers
21 answers
18 answers
18 answers
16 answers
13 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
8 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4O1D2G2Y4
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Strategy after playing WODGY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WODGY:

38% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
10% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
8% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

38.2%
SLATE 6.30 bits
10.5%
TARSE 5.28 bits
7.9%
SLART 4.85 bits
5.9%
CARSE 4.88 bits
5.8%
ARIEL 5.37 bits
5.0%
RAILE 5.37 bits
2.1%
SLIER 4.86 bits
1.8%
BRISE 4.07 bits
1.7%
SABLE 3.72 bits
1.7%
SERAL 4.23 bits

Research on WODGY

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

Optimal play

Opening with WODGY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses and ranks #10,389 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 WODGY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.75, 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.

How it sounds

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

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.