5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

APING

APING is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 90.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.pɪŋ/

Verb

present participle and gerund of ape

Noun

Foolish imitation or mimicry.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

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 APING performs as a guess

APING is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 78.8% of games, misses completely in 21.2%, and leaves about 217 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,149 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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 _P__G P in the 2nd position and G in the 5th position

Try next

SOREL CARLE TILDE CRUET ROULE PARSE
Words starting with A Words ending with G

First-turn measures

4.48 Entropy (bits)
217 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 50% of evaluated openers
1.47 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How APING 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#5,149 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, APING ranks #5,149 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
900
4 guesses
1,167
5 guesses
212
6 guesses
17
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)
79%
Green tile
23%
All gray
21%

Example solver route

R O A T E
N A S A L
A G I N G
A P I N G

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches APING in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

89 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

500
407
143
120
113
101
77
69
68
63
59
52
48
46
32
30
28
22
21
20
18
17
16
16
16
13
12
11
11
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing APING:

21% chance
Suggested:
SOREL
17% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
6% chance
Suggested:
TILDE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.2% →
SOREL 6.03 bits
17.3% →
CARLE 5.57 bits
6.1% →
TILDE 5.03 bits
5.1% →
SOREL 5.05 bits
4.8% →
CRUET 4.95 bits
4.3% →
SOREL 5.32 bits
3.3% →
ROULE 5.24 bits
2.9% →
PARSE 4.95 bits
2.9% →
SOREL 4.66 bits
2.7% →
BLORE 4.98 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1P3I1N1G2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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