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

AGROS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.3% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Proper noun

plural of Agro

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 AGROS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AGROS 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 86.5% of games, misses completely in 13.5%, and leaves about 136 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,315 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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 AGROS 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.

4.87 Entropy (bits)
136 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 76% of evaluated openers
1.08 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AGROS 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#4,315 Rank among openers
Opening with AGROS left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.66 average. It ranks #4,315 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
64
3 guesses
901
4 guesses
1,175
5 guesses
198
6 guesses
14
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:
AORS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
19%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

AGROS can come back 95 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

321 answers
243 answers
179 answers
160 answers
156 answers
143 answers
141 answers
89 answers
74 answers
73 answers
47 answers
45 answers
40 answers
40 answers
39 answers
38 answers
32 answers
30 answers
27 answers
25 answers
25 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
21 answers
18 answers
18 answers
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16 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1G2R1O1S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing AGROS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AGROS:

14% chance
Suggested:
CLINE
10% chance
Suggested:
LEANT
8% chance
Suggested:
TRIED

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.5%
CLINE 5.93 bits
10.2%
LEANT 5.32 bits
7.5%
TRIED 5.11 bits
6.7%
CLOTE 4.92 bits
6.6%
STILE 5.38 bits
6.0%
LEANT 4.57 bits
5.9%
PLATE 5.01 bits
3.7%
CONTE 4.22 bits
3.1%
DEIGN 4.99 bits
3.1%
SCOTE 4.46 bits

Research on AGROS

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

Optimal play

Opening with AGROS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #4,349 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 AGROS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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 first syllable Say it AGROHZ. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
AGROS sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).