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

AEGER

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.3% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Absent and excused from one’s classes due to illness

Adjective

Relating to such an excused absence

Noun

An excused absence from classes due to illness

Noun

A note excusing a student from classes due to illness

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 AEGER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AEGER 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 82.3% of games, misses completely in 17.7%, and leaves about 159 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,622 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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 AEGER 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.

4.85 Entropy (bits)
159 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 75% of evaluated openers
1.10 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AEGER 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
99.87% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#8,622 Rank among openers
Opening with AEGER left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.73 average. It ranks #8,622 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
824
4 guesses
1,175
5 guesses
273
6 guesses
20
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:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
32%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

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

421 answers
276 answers
177 answers
162 answers
129 answers
101 answers
80 answers
77 answers
64 answers
62 answers
52 answers
46 answers
41 answers
38 answers
33 answers
27 answers
27 answers
27 answers
26 answers
26 answers
25 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
18 answers
16 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1E1G2E1R1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing AEGER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AEGER:

18% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
12% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
7% chance
Suggested:
COURT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.7%
SOILY 5.66 bits
11.6%
SLANT 5.21 bits
7.5%
COURT 5.24 bits
6.8%
STILE 5.42 bits
5.4%
CHART 4.27 bits
4.3%
SHALT 4.90 bits
3.4%
SOILY 3.59 bits
3.2%
TROPE 4.38 bits
2.7%
OLDEN 4.31 bits
2.6%
SOILY 4.73 bits

Research on AEGER

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

Optimal play

Opening with AEGER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,176 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 AEGER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.73; proven optimal play reaches 3.72. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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 EHGUR. 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.