AEGIS
AEGIS is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈiːd͡ʒɪs/
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A mythological shield associated with the Greek deities Zeus and Athena (and their Roman counterparts Jupiter and Minerva) shown as a short cloak made of goatskin worn on the shoulders, more as an emblem of power and protection than a military shield. The aegis of Athena or Minerva is usually shown with a border of snakes and with the head of Medusa in the center.
- Noun
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Guidance, protection; endorsement, sponsorship.
“under the aegis”
Alternative forms: ægis, egis
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin aegis, from Ancient Greek αἰγίς (aigís, “goatskin; shield of Athena”), probably from αἴξ (aíx, “goat”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyǵ- (“goat”).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it EEJUHS.
Related meanings
Synonyms protection auspices
In a sentence
The educational program is conducted under the aegis of the government.
The Aegis collision - why couldn't it have been avoided?
Use AEGIS in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 95.2% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
NoThe solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.
Past Wordle answer
No completed appearanceNo appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.
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2 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #840
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AEGIS appeared in BACKING (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #566
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AEGIS appeared in OBJECTS FROM GREEK MYTH (green group).
How AEGIS performs as a guess
Wordle accepts AEGIS 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 89.8% of games, misses completely in 10.2%, and leaves about 115 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,704 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe AEGIS 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How AEGIS 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Feedback distribution
AEGIS can come back 100 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for AEGIS; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing AEGIS
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to AEGIS.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing AEGIS:
Research on AEGIS
Game-tree analysis and word research for AEGIS, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with AEGIS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,774 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 AEGIS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, at or below the proven-optimal 3.71, 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
- AEGIS sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).