AGENT
Yes, AGENT was the Wordle answer on October 14, 2023 (Wordle #847).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ̯d͡ʒənt/[ˈeɪ̯d͡ʒənt] ~ [ˈeɪ̯d͡ʒn̩t]
- Noun
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One who exerts power, or has the power to act.
- Noun
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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.
Etymology
Occupational surname, from agent.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it AYJUHNT.
Related meanings
Synonyms factor broker
In a sentence
We have the same agent.
My agent is calling me.
Use AGENT in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 94.7% 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
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: October 14, 2023 (#847).
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See what the public sample says →AGENT in Connections
6 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . Showing the 5 most recent. A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #1162
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AGENT appeared in PARTICIPANT (green group).
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· Puzzle #585
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AGENT appeared in SPY (blue group).
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· Puzzle #527
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AGENT appeared in DOUBLE ___ (purple group).
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· Puzzle #265
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AGENT appeared in INTELLIGENCE OPERATIVE (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #197
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AGENT appeared in SECRET ___ (purple group).
How AGENT performs as a guess
AGENT is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 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 126 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
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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.
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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
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:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for AGENT; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
Try next
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:
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.
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).
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).