5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

WONGI

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Manilkara kauki, a plant in the family Sapotaceae, found in tropical Asia and northern Queensland, Australia.

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 WONGI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WONGI 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 69.5% of games, misses completely in 30.5%, and leaves about 309 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,361 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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__G_ W in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _O__I O in the 2nd position and I in the 5th position

Try next

REAST TALER CRATE TARSE TASER GLARE
Words starting with W Words ending with I

First-turn measures

4.07 Entropy (bits)
309 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 26% of evaluated openers
1.87 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WONGI 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#8,361 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WONGI ranks #8,361 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
45
3 guesses
806
4 guesses
1,253
5 guesses
241
6 guesses
7
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
INO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
22%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

83 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

719
321
204
148
125
82
71
53
51
39
38
35
29
26
26
26
24
24
20
19
18
16
15
14
13
13
13
12
11
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WONGI:

30% chance
Suggested:
REAST
14% chance
Suggested:
TALER
9% chance
Suggested:
CRATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.5% →
REAST 6.33 bits
13.6% →
TALER 5.37 bits
8.7% →
CRATE 5.38 bits
6.3% →
TALER 4.72 bits
5.3% →
TARSE 5.25 bits
3.5% →
TASER 4.91 bits
3.0% →
GLARE 5.00 bits
2.2% →
ARSEY 4.47 bits
2.2% →
CARLE 4.31 bits
1.7% →
DROIT 4.41 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4O1N1G2I1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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