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

AGGER

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.1% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ædʒə(ɹ)/

Noun

A double tide, particularly a high tide in which the water rises to a given level, recedes, and then rises again (or only the second of these high waters), but sometimes equally a low tide in which the water recedes to a given level, rises, and then recedes again

Noun

Synonym of earthwork in ancient Roman contexts, particularly a defensive wall or mound.

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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

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

How AGGER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AGGER 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 82.3% of games, misses completely in 17.7%, and leaves about 187 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,511 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 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.

Useful pattern pages

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

First-turn measures

All four describe AGGER 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.

4.36 Entropy (bits)
187 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 43% of evaluated openers
1.58 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AGGER 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#12,511 Rank among openers
Opening with AGGER left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.83 average. It ranks #12,511 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
695
4 guesses
1,253
5 guesses
336
6 guesses
21
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
24%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

AGGER can come back 75 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

421 answers
276 answers
250 answers
177 answers
152 answers
129 answers
128 answers
103 answers
102 answers
61 answers
60 answers
52 answers
44 answers
33 answers
27 answers
26 answers
26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
21 answers
20 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1G2G2E1R1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing AGGER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AGGER:

18% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
12% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
11% chance
Suggested:
STILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.7%
SOILY 5.66 bits
11.6%
SLANT 5.21 bits
10.5%
STILE 5.34 bits
7.5%
COURT 5.24 bits
6.4%
SLATE 5.15 bits
5.4%
CHART 4.27 bits
5.4%
TOISE 4.53 bits
4.3%
SOILY 3.55 bits
4.3%
INTEL 4.22 bits
2.6%
TRACE 4.09 bits

Research on AGGER

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

Optimal play

Opening with AGGER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.81 guesses and ranks #11,273 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 AGGER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.83; proven optimal play reaches 3.81. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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 AGUR. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
AGGER sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).