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

AGUNA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.9% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of agunah.

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 AGUNA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AGUNA 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 70.7% of games, misses completely in 29.3%, and leaves about 335 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,877 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.84 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 AGUNA 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.

3.85 Entropy (bits)
335 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 17% of evaluated openers
2.09 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AGUNA 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.

3.84 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#12,877 Rank among openers
Opening with AGUNA left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.84 average. It ranks #12,877 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
698
4 guesses
1,242
5 guesses
343
6 guesses
28
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

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
ANU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
21%
All gray
29%

Feedback distribution

AGUNA can come back 69 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

696 answers
467 answers
161 answers
160 answers
88 answers
85 answers
84 answers
62 answers
58 answers
46 answers
44 answers
37 answers
34 answers
25 answers
25 answers
25 answers
24 answers
21 answers
20 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
12 answers
10 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1G2U1N1A1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing AGUNA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AGUNA:

29% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
20% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
7% chance
Suggested:
SILER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.3%
SOLER 5.93 bits
19.7%
TARSE 5.63 bits
6.8%
SILER 5.16 bits
6.7%
SLYER 4.93 bits
3.7%
CLOSE 4.90 bits
3.6%
TRODE 5.08 bits
3.5%
SIREN 4.54 bits
2.6%
DROLE 4.77 bits
2.4%
STORE 4.67 bits
1.9%
PARLE 4.32 bits

Research on AGUNA

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

Optimal play

Opening with AGUNA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.85 guesses and ranks #12,644 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.97 guesses at best and is rank #5,755 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.84, at or below the proven-optimal 3.85, 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

Three syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it UHGOONUH. 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.