AGREE
Yes, AGREE has been the Wordle answer on August 28, 2021 (Wordle #70) and May 21, 2026 (Wordle #1797).
As an opener, it rules out about 93.6% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /əˈɡɹiː//əˈɡɹi/
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To be in harmony about an opinion, statement, or action; to have a consistent idea between two or more people.
“All parties agree in the expediency of the law.”
- Verb
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To give assent; to accede.
“It was agreed to meet here at midday.”
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
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used 2 timesPast Wordle answer: August 28, 2021 (#70); May 21, 2026 (#1797).
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AGREE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 82.3% of games, misses completely in 17.7%, and leaves about 152 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,690 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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First-turn measures
All four describe AGREE 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 AGREE 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 AGREE in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
AGREE can come back 91 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 AGREE; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing AGREE
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to AGREE.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing AGREE:
Research on AGREE
Game-tree analysis and word research for AGREE, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with AGREE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,215 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 AGREE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.76; proven optimal play reaches 3.72. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.
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 UHGREE.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, AGREE is a kind of move or accept.
Synonyms CHECK hold MATCH fit accord TALLY
Opposites disagree
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- AGREE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 93 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- Learner level
- Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A1); among the first words English learners study.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 39 of 100. Raters found it difficult to picture.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (2.9 of 5).
In a sentence
I agree to do that.
On that, I agree with you!
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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).