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AGING

Yes, AGING was the Wordle answer on January 2, 2024 (Wordle #927).

As an opener, it rules out about 87.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.d͡ʒɪŋ/

Verb

present participle and gerund of age

Noun

The process of becoming older or more mature.

Noun

The deliberate process of making something (such as an antique) appear (or, in science fiction, become) older than it is.

Adjective

Becoming elderly.

“The aging artist could no longer steadily hold the brush.”

Alternative forms: ageing

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: January 2, 2024 (#927).

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

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How AGING performs as a guess

AGING is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 73.7% of games, misses completely in 26.3%, and leaves about 307 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,767 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.

A___G A in the 1st position and G in the 5th position A__N_ A in the 1st position and N in the 4th position

Try next

SOREL CARLE TILDE CRUSE SOLER ROULE
Words starting with A Words ending with G

First-turn measures

3.85 Entropy (bits)
307 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
87.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 16% of evaluated openers
2.10 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How AGING 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
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#12,767 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, AGING ranks #12,767 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
703
4 guesses
1,251
5 guesses
334
6 guesses
27
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
22%
All gray
26%

Example solver route

R O A T E
N A S A L
A G I N G

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches AGING in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

61 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

619
487
178
144
127
77
74
73
67
57
56
53
35
28
27
20
19
17
16
16
14
13
12
12
11
10
10
7
6
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AGING:

26% chance
Suggested:
SOREL
21% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
8% chance
Suggested:
TILDE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.3% →
SOREL 6.06 bits
20.7% →
CARLE 5.57 bits
7.5% →
TILDE 5.06 bits
6.1% →
CRUSE 4.91 bits
5.4% →
SOLER 5.04 bits
3.3% →
ROULE 5.32 bits
3.1% →
SOREL 4.69 bits
3.1% →
BLORE 4.98 bits
2.8% →
TONER 4.35 bits
2.4% →
TORSE 4.65 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1G2I1N1G2
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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