5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

AHING

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

present participle and gerund of ah

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 AHING performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AHING 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 79.5% of games, misses completely in 20.5%, and leaves about 203 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,510 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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___G A in the 1st position and G in the 5th position A__N_ A in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _H__G H in the 2nd position and G in the 5th position

Try next

SOLER CARLE TILDE STOLE CRUET ROUGE
Words starting with A Words ending with G

First-turn measures

4.55 Entropy (bits)
203 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 55% of evaluated openers
1.40 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How AHING 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#5,510 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, AHING ranks #5,510 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
876
4 guesses
1,201
5 guesses
200
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:
AIN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
26%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

91 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

484
387
152
118
102
82
74
70
69
63
61
53
53
53
50
37
30
23
22
21
21
20
20
18
16
14
14
12
12
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AHING:

21% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
16% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
6% chance
Suggested:
TILDE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.5% →
SOLER 6.07 bits
16.4% →
CARLE 5.56 bits
6.4% →
TILDE 5.10 bits
5.0% →
STOLE 4.89 bits
4.3% →
SOLER 5.04 bits
3.5% →
CRUET 4.96 bits
3.1% →
ROUGE 5.12 bits
3.0% →
SOREL 4.74 bits
2.9% →
BLORE 4.98 bits
2.7% →
CARTE 4.75 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1H4I1N1G2
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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