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

AINGA

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

No dictionary definition for AINGA is recorded in our sourced data.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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Use AINGA in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 87.8% 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 AINGA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AINGA 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 73.7% of games, misses completely in 26.3%, and leaves about 292 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,765 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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.

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First-turn measures

All four describe AINGA 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.

4.09 Entropy (bits)
292 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AINGA 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#11,765 Rank among openers
Opening with AINGA left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.80 average. It ranks #11,765 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
726
4 guesses
1,218
5 guesses
330
6 guesses
22

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AIN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
23%
All gray
26%

Feedback distribution

AINGA can come back 88 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

627 answers
441 answers
215 answers
144 answers
110 answers
75 answers
64 answers
56 answers
53 answers
53 answers
43 answers
42 answers
32 answers
27 answers
27 answers
26 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
19 answers
18 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1I1N1G2A1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing AINGA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AINGA:

26% chance
Suggested:
SOREL
18% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
9% chance
Suggested:
CRISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.3% →
SOREL 6.05 bits
18.5% →
TARSE 5.64 bits
9.0% →
CRISE 5.30 bits
6.0% →
SORED 5.30 bits
4.6% →
STOLE 4.37 bits
3.1% →
REAST 4.36 bits
2.7% →
STONE 4.43 bits
2.3% →
ROULE 5.07 bits
2.2% →
TRAIL 4.59 bits
2.2% →
DROLE 4.68 bits

Research on AINGA

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

Optimal play

Opening with AINGA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.81 guesses and ranks #11,374 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.94 guesses at best and is rank #5,175 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.80, at or below the proven-optimal 3.81, 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).