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

AGUTI

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Archaic form of agouti.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use AGUTI in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 92.2% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How AGUTI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AGUTI 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 83.9% of games, misses completely in 16.1%, and leaves about 187 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,147 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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 AGUTI 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.

4.49 Entropy (bits)
187 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.2% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AGUTI 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#8,147 Rank among openers
Opening with AGUTI left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.72 average. It ranks #8,147 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
825
4 guesses
1,211
5 guesses
243
6 guesses
19

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AITU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
19%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

AGUTI can come back 82 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

383 answers
383 answers
257 answers
124 answers
123 answers
117 answers
95 answers
72 answers
65 answers
59 answers
58 answers
54 answers
50 answers
40 answers
36 answers
32 answers
32 answers
30 answers
29 answers
29 answers
26 answers
23 answers
23 answers
20 answers
20 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
10 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1G2U1T1I1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing AGUTI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AGUTI:

16% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
16% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
11% chance
Suggested:
SILER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.1% →
SOLER 5.73 bits
16.1% →
CARLE 5.61 bits
10.8% →
SILER 5.31 bits
5.2% →
CARLE 4.91 bits
5.2% →
SLEER 5.35 bits
4.9% →
SLYER 4.82 bits
4.0% →
HEIST 4.47 bits
3.0% →
SLOPE 4.57 bits
2.7% →
NADIR 4.47 bits
2.5% →
DRONE 4.63 bits

Research on AGUTI

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

Optimal play

Opening with AGUTI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #9,115 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.89 guesses at best and is rank #3,900 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.72, at or below the proven-optimal 3.77, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).