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

AGIST

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.9% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /əˈd͡ʒɪst/

Verb

To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same.

Verb

To charge lands etc. with any public burden.

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 AGIST performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AGIST 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 83.2% of games, misses completely in 16.8%, and leaves about 145 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,143 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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 AGIST 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.

4.98 Entropy (bits)
145 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 83% of evaluated openers
0.96 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AGIST 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#1,143 Rank among openers
Opening with AGIST left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.60 average. It ranks #1,143 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
60
3 guesses
1,016
4 guesses
1,091
5 guesses
171
6 guesses
15
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
30%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

AGIST can come back 102 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

398 answers
293 answers
134 answers
118 answers
110 answers
87 answers
83 answers
83 answers
79 answers
59 answers
51 answers
50 answers
48 answers
45 answers
43 answers
42 answers
40 answers
38 answers
36 answers
35 answers
32 answers
30 answers
27 answers
27 answers
23 answers
22 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1G2I1S1T1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing AGIST

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AGIST:

17% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
12% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
6% chance
Suggested:
LINER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.8%
DROLE 5.89 bits
12.3%
CARLE 5.63 bits
5.6%
LINER 5.18 bits
5.0%
PLORE 4.98 bits
4.6%
TUTOR 5.20 bits
3.7%
PARLE 4.61 bits
3.5%
LOURE 5.35 bits
3.5%
LATTE 4.70 bits
3.3%
CRONE 4.77 bits
2.5%
GRONE 4.58 bits

Research on AGIST

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

Optimal play

Opening with AGIST, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #2,629 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 AGIST can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.60, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it UHJIHST. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.