5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

AGONY

Yes, AGONY was the Wordle answer on April 15, 2023 (Wordle #665).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈæɡ.ə.ni//ˈeɪ̯ɡ.ə.ni/

Noun

Extreme pain or anguish.

“When the weight fell on her foot, she cried out in agony.”

Noun

The sufferings of Jesus Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane (often capitalized).

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: April 15, 2023 (#665).

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

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How AGONY performs as a guess

AGONY 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 80.5% of games, misses completely in 19.5%, and leaves about 198 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,008 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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___Y A in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position A__N_ A in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _G__Y G in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

SLIER REAST ROUET CRUSE SIDLE SIREE
Words starting with A Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

4.59 Entropy (bits)
198 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 57% of evaluated openers
1.36 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How AGONY 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#7,008 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, AGONY ranks #7,008 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
861
4 guesses
1,191
5 guesses
230
6 guesses
18
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ANO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
35%
All gray
20%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches AGONY in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

91 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

459
392
159
130
121
103
77
64
59
59
55
49
48
42
36
35
29
22
22
18
18
17
17
17
16
16
16
14
13
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AGONY:

19% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
17% chance
Suggested:
REAST
7% chance
Suggested:
ROUET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.5% →
SLIER 6.18 bits
16.6% →
REAST 5.61 bits
6.7% →
ROUET 5.23 bits
5.5% →
CRUSE 4.68 bits
5.1% →
SIDLE 4.68 bits
4.4% →
SIREE 5.02 bits
3.3% →
SLART 4.32 bits
2.7% →
SILER 4.44 bits
2.5% →
SIDLE 4.80 bits
2.5% →
CAROL 4.50 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1G2O1N1Y4
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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