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

YOGEE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.5% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Archaic form of yogi.

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 YOGEE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts YOGEE 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 79.1% of games, misses completely in 20.9%, and leaves about 202 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,530 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

First-turn measures

All four describe YOGEE 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.

4.32 Entropy (bits)
202 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 39% of evaluated openers
1.63 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How YOGEE 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#11,530 Rank among openers
Opening with YOGEE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.80 average. It ranks #11,530 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
38
3 guesses
755
4 guesses
1,229
5 guesses
308
6 guesses
23
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

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
EO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
42%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

YOGEE can come back 66 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

497 answers
219 answers
209 answers
199 answers
196 answers
141 answers
118 answers
73 answers
62 answers
57 answers
55 answers
50 answers
48 answers
46 answers
42 answers
33 answers
29 answers
25 answers
25 answers
21 answers
19 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Y4O1G2E1E1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing YOGEE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing YOGEE:

21% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
9% chance
Suggested:
ARSON
9% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.9%
TRAIL 6.07 bits
9.2%
ARSON 5.09 bits
8.8%
SAINT 4.88 bits
8.4%
SLART 5.62 bits
8.3%
SLART 5.15 bits
5.9%
SAINT 4.57 bits
5.0%
SHART 4.58 bits
3.1%
STEER 4.10 bits
2.6%
SLART 4.02 bits
2.4%
SLANT 4.92 bits

Research on YOGEE

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

Optimal play

Opening with YOGEE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses and ranks #10,434 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 YOGEE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.80, 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 YAHGEE. 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.