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

AGILA

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

No dictionary definition for AGILA is recorded in our sourced data.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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Use AGILA in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 89.0% 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 AGILA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AGILA 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 74.7% of games, misses completely in 25.3%, and leaves about 261 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,179 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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 AGILA 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.

4.16 Entropy (bits)
261 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.0% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AGILA 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#10,179 Rank among openers
Opening with AGILA left 2 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 3.77 average. It ranks #10,179 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
755
4 guesses
1,238
5 guesses
283
6 guesses
18

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AIL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
24%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

AGILA can come back 82 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

603 answers
367 answers
190 answers
150 answers
140 answers
134 answers
83 answers
61 answers
54 answers
48 answers
43 answers
42 answers
38 answers
36 answers
32 answers
28 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
19 answers
19 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
12 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1G2I1L1A1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing AGILA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AGILA:

25% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
15% chance
Suggested:
CRATE
8% chance
Suggested:
RONTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.3% →
TORSE 6.26 bits
15.4% →
CRATE 5.71 bits
8.0% →
RONTE 5.23 bits
6.3% →
CORSE 4.89 bits
5.9% →
REAST 4.88 bits
5.6% →
TRONE 5.06 bits
3.5% →
ROUGE 5.19 bits
2.6% →
SOLDE 4.26 bits
2.3% →
GRATE 4.37 bits
2.0% →
TILDE 4.29 bits

Research on AGILA

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

Optimal play

Opening with AGILA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.81 guesses and ranks #11,214 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.92 guesses at best and is rank #4,777 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.77, at or below the proven-optimal 3.81, 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
AGILA 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).