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

AGAMY

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Absence or nonrecognition of marriage, or absence of a pair bond.

Noun

Asexual reproduction.

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄγαμος (ágamos, “unmarried, single (of men)”). From a- (“not”) + -gamy (“marriage”).

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use AGAMY in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 83.1% 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 AGAMY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AGAMY 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 63.5% of games, misses completely in 36.5%, and leaves about 402 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,382 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 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 AGAMY 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.

3.65 Entropy (bits)
402 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.1% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AGAMY 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.

3.82 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#12,382 Rank among openers
Opening with AGAMY left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.82 average. It ranks #12,382 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
687
4 guesses
1,293
5 guesses
306
6 guesses
23

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
A

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
64%
Green tile
34%
All gray
36%

Feedback distribution

AGAMY can come back 71 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

870 answers
268 answers
206 answers
188 answers
149 answers
102 answers
73 answers
71 answers
45 answers
35 answers
28 answers
28 answers
26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
22 answers
19 answers
15 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1G2A1M3Y4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Strategy after playing AGAMY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AGAMY:

36% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
11% chance
Suggested:
RATEL
9% chance
Suggested:
CRISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

36.5% →
TRINE 6.09 bits
11.2% →
RATEL 5.55 bits
8.6% →
CRISE 5.09 bits
7.9% →
SILER 4.59 bits
6.2% →
RIONE 5.55 bits
4.3% →
MOIRE 5.31 bits
3.1% →
SLART 3.58 bits
3.0% →
DROLE 4.99 bits
1.9% →
CARET 4.52 bits
1.5% →
LAGER 4.40 bits

Research on AGAMY

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

Optimal play

Opening with AGAMY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.86 guesses and ranks #13,055 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 AGAMY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.82, at or below the proven-optimal 3.86, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).