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AGENT

Yes, AGENT was the Wordle answer on October 14, 2023 (Wordle #847).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ̯d͡ʒənt/[ˈeɪ̯d͡ʒənt] ~ [ˈeɪ̯d͡ʒn̩t]

Noun

One who exerts power, or has the power to act.

Noun

One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by that person's authority; someone entrusted to act on behalf of or in behalf of another, such as to transact business for them.

“He worked as an agent for the government.”

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: October 14, 2023 (#847).

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

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How AGENT performs as a guess

AGENT is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 87.2% of games, misses completely in 12.8%, and leaves about 125 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,848 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

A___T A in the 1st position and T in the 5th position A__N_ A in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _G__T G in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in AGENT.

First-turn measures

All four describe AGENT 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.

5.09 Entropy (bits)
125 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 88% of evaluated openers
0.86 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AGENT 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#3,848 Rank among openers
Opening with AGENT left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.65 average. It ranks #3,848 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
70
3 guesses
906
4 guesses
1,162
5 guesses
198
6 guesses
15
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AENT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
28%
All gray
13%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S P L A T
C A D E T
A G E N T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches AGENT in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

AGENT can come back 106 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

303 answers
265 answers
227 answers
132 answers
105 answers
89 answers
85 answers
72 answers
70 answers
63 answers
59 answers
55 answers
51 answers
50 answers
50 answers
40 answers
37 answers
29 answers
29 answers
29 answers
27 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
16 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1G2E1N1T1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

SOILY SOLER CAROL CARLE SOUTH ROUTE

Strategy after playing AGENT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AGENT:

13% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
11% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
10% chance
Suggested:
CAROL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.8% →
SOILY 5.64 bits
11.2% →
SOLER 5.23 bits
9.6% →
CAROL 5.24 bits
5.6% →
CARLE 4.87 bits
4.4% →
SOUTH 4.99 bits
3.7% →
ROUTE 4.61 bits
3.6% →
DOREE 4.47 bits
3.0% →
SATYR 4.15 bits
2.9% →
SCION 4.66 bits
2.7% →
SCREE 4.48 bits

Research on AGENT

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

Optimal play

Opening with AGENT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #2,938 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.79 guesses at best and is rank #1,142 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it AYJUHNT.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, AGENT is a kind of cause or representative.

Synonyms factor broker

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
AGENT sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 65 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A2); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 9, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 56 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.6 of 5).

In a sentence

We have the same agent.
© tatoeba.org contributor CM (CC BY 2.0 FR)
My agent is calling me.
© tatoeba.org contributor Amastan (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).