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

YOGIC

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Of or pertaining to yoga.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use YOGIC in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 90.3% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How YOGIC performs as a guess

Wordle accepts YOGIC 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 76.2% of games, misses completely in 23.8%, and leaves about 230 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,880 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe YOGIC 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.

4.20 Entropy (bits)
230 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How YOGIC 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
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#8,880 Rank among openers
Opening with YOGIC left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.74 average. It ranks #8,880 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
793
4 guesses
1,281
5 guesses
223
6 guesses
16

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
IO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
21%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

YOGIC can come back 69 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

568 answers
231 answers
213 answers
193 answers
190 answers
119 answers
94 answers
78 answers
64 answers
62 answers
60 answers
57 answers
51 answers
39 answers
35 answers
32 answers
27 answers
27 answers
22 answers
19 answers
18 answers
15 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Y4O1G2I1C3
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Strategy after playing YOGIC

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing YOGIC:

24% chance
Suggested:
REAST
10% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
9% chance
Suggested:
TARSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.8% →
REAST 6.34 bits
9.7% →
SLIER 5.39 bits
8.9% →
TARSE 5.30 bits
8.1% →
CHARE 5.57 bits
8.0% →
SARED 5.13 bits
5.0% →
RATEL 4.82 bits
3.9% →
LEANT 5.02 bits
3.3% →
URATE 5.00 bits
2.7% →
SLANT 3.82 bits
2.6% →
CRAKE 4.56 bits

Research on YOGIC

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

Optimal play

Opening with YOGIC, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses and ranks #10,263 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.92 guesses at best and is rank #4,612 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 3.79, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
YOGIC sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).