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EAGLE

Yes, EAGLE was the Wordle answer on December 24, 2024 (Wordle #1284).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈiːɡəl/[ˈɪi̯ɡəl] ~ [ˈɪi̯ɡl̩]

Noun

Any of several large carnivorous and carrion-eating birds in the family Accipitridae, having a powerful hooked bill and keen vision.

Noun

A score of two under par for a hole.

“I got an eagle in the third hole.”

Verb

To score an eagle.

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

Used once

Past Wordle answer: December 24, 2024 (#1284).

See the full page for that puzzle: December 24, 2024 (#1284).

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

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How EAGLE performs as a guess

EAGLE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 81.2% of games, misses completely in 18.8%, and leaves about 161 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,385 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

E___E E in the 1st position and E in the 5th position E__L_ E in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _A__E A in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in EAGLE.

First-turn measures

All four describe EAGLE 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.

4.82 Entropy (bits)
161 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 73% of evaluated openers
1.13 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How EAGLE 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#8,385 Rank among openers
Opening with EAGLE left 1 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 3.73 average. It ranks #8,385 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
70
3 guesses
775
4 guesses
1,242
5 guesses
252
6 guesses
13
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:
AEL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
38%
All gray
19%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S M I L Y
C A D G E
E A G L E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches EAGLE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

EAGLE can come back 102 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

447 answers
221 answers
197 answers
142 answers
129 answers
112 answers
101 answers
83 answers
64 answers
61 answers
59 answers
59 answers
50 answers
37 answers
37 answers
31 answers
30 answers
27 answers
26 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
21 answers
19 answers
19 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1A1G2L1E1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

COURT SORED TRASH SATYR TRONE CLOUT

Strategy after playing EAGLE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing EAGLE:

19% chance
Suggested:
COURT
9% chance
Suggested:
SORED
8% chance
Suggested:
TRASH

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.8% →
COURT 5.98 bits
9.3% →
SORED 5.01 bits
8.3% →
TRASH 5.14 bits
6.0% →
SATYR 4.08 bits
5.4% →
TRONE 4.59 bits
4.7% →
CLOUT 4.62 bits
4.3% →
SONAR 4.19 bits
3.5% →
TREAD 4.58 bits
2.7% →
GOURD 4.71 bits
2.6% →
SHART 3.94 bits

Research on EAGLE

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

Optimal play

Opening with EAGLE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,495 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with EAGLE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.73, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it EEGUHL.

Rhymes with LEGAL REGAL

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, EAGLE is a kind of raptor or score.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
EAGLE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 13 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 5, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 97 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.1 of 5).

In a sentence

Have you seen the eagle?
© tatoeba.org contributor Ahitos (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I have seen an eagle.
© tatoeba.org contributor Ahitos (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).