AGING
Yes, AGING was the Wordle answer on January 2, 2024 (Wordle #927).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.d͡ʒɪŋ/
- Verb
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present participle and gerund of age
- Noun
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The process of becoming older or more mature.
- Noun
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The deliberate process of making something (such as an antique) appear (or, in science fiction, become) older than it is.
- Adjective
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Becoming elderly.
“The aging artist could no longer steadily hold the brush.”
Alternative forms: ageing
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
By surface analysis, age + -ing.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it AYJIHNG.
Related meanings
Synonyms ageing old
Opposites YOUNG
In a sentence
They live in an aging country.
This country has an aging population.
Use AGING in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 87.0% 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: January 2, 2024 (#927).
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See what the public sample says →How AGING performs as a guess
AGING is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,385 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 309 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,767 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe AGING 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 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches AGING in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
AGING can come back 61 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 AGING; 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.
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Strategy after playing AGING
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to AGING.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing AGING:
Research on AGING
Game-tree analysis and word research for AGING, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with AGING, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.86 guesses and ranks #12,997 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.99 guesses at best and is rank #6,108 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.83, at or below the proven-optimal 3.86, 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
- AGING sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 11 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.8 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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).