5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

GAGED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of gage

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 GAGED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GAGED 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 78.2% of games, misses completely in 21.8%, and leaves about 234 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,594 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 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.

G___D G in the 1st position and D in the 5th position G__E_ G in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__D A in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position GA_ED G in the 1st position, A in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and D in the 5th position

Try next

HOIST TORSE SLART SENOR SONLY DROIT
Words starting with G Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.18 Entropy (bits)
234 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 32% of evaluated openers
1.77 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GAGED 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#12,594 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GAGED ranks #12,594 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
43
3 guesses
670
4 guesses
1,305
5 guesses
316
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AE

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
34%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

71 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

514
323
272
184
173
153
57
53
45
42
41
39
35
31
29
25
24
23
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21
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10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GAGED:

22% chance
Suggested:
HOIST
14% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
12% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.8% →
HOIST 5.84 bits
13.7% →
TORSE 5.29 bits
11.5% →
SLART 5.40 bits
7.8% →
SENOR 4.45 bits
7.3% →
SLART 5.34 bits
6.5% →
SONLY 4.54 bits
2.4% →
DROIT 4.60 bits
2.2% →
DRICE 4.41 bits
1.9% →
LATER 3.32 bits
1.8% →
LOURE 4.16 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2A1G2E1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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