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

AGAMI

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈæɡəmi/

Noun

A South American bird, Psophia crepitans, allied to the cranes, and easily domesticated.

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

Etymology

From French agami, from Kari'na akami.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use AGAMI in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 85.9% 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 AGAMI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AGAMI 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 70.6% of games, misses completely in 29.4%, and leaves about 335 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,244 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.85 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 AGAMI 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.

3.72 Entropy (bits)
335 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.9% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AGAMI 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.

3.85 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#13,244 Rank among openers
Opening with AGAMI left 2 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 3.85 average. It ranks #13,244 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
632
4 guesses
1,288
5 guesses
353
6 guesses
24

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AI

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
21%
All gray
29%

Feedback distribution

AGAMI can come back 72 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

701 answers
378 answers
288 answers
201 answers
98 answers
89 answers
82 answers
62 answers
59 answers
47 answers
42 answers
42 answers
26 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
20 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
11 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1G2A1M3I1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing AGAMI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AGAMI:

29% chance
Suggested:
SOREL
16% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
12% chance
Suggested:
TALER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.4% →
SOREL 6.05 bits
15.9% →
TRINE 5.34 bits
12.1% →
TALER 5.50 bits
8.4% →
CRUSE 4.98 bits
4.1% →
ROULE 5.35 bits
3.7% →
HOMER 4.87 bits
3.4% →
TRONE 4.61 bits
2.6% →
SAINT 4.29 bits
2.5% →
DROLE 4.77 bits
2.0% →
CARLE 4.60 bits

Research on AGAMI

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

Optimal play

Opening with AGAMI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.87 guesses and ranks #13,136 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 AGAMI can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.85, at or below the proven-optimal 3.87, 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
AGAMI sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

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