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LAGER

Yes, LAGER was the Wordle answer on October 6, 2024 (Wordle #1205).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈlɑːɡə//ˈlɑɡɚ/

Noun

A type of beer, brewed using a bottom-fermenting yeast.

Verb

To store (lager beer) at a low temperature for maturing and clarification.

Noun

Alternative spelling of laager.

Verb

Alternative spelling of laager.

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: October 6, 2024 (#1205).

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

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How LAGER performs as a guess

LAGER 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 88.2% of games, misses completely in 11.8%, and leaves about 99 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,684 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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.

L___R L in the 1st position and R in the 5th position L__E_ L in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__R A in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position LA_ER L in the 1st position, A in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe LAGER 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.

5.34 Entropy (bits)
99 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 96% of evaluated openers
0.61 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LAGER 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#2,684 Rank among openers
Opening with LAGER left 2 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 3.63 average. It ranks #2,684 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
85
3 guesses
916
4 guesses
1,141
5 guesses
195
6 guesses
14
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AELR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
31%
All gray
12%

Example solver route

R O A T E
G L E A M
L A G E R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches LAGER in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

LAGER can come back 125 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

280 answers
167 answers
150 answers
123 answers
122 answers
99 answers
95 answers
92 answers
86 answers
86 answers
85 answers
77 answers
61 answers
54 answers
48 answers
42 answers
36 answers
35 answers
34 answers
33 answers
29 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
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17 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1A1G2E1R1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

HOIST SEINE COURT SOULY TOISE STAIN

Strategy after playing LAGER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LAGER:

12% chance
Suggested:
HOIST
7% chance
Suggested:
SEINE
6% chance
Suggested:
COURT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.8% →
HOIST 5.82 bits
7.0% →
SEINE 5.50 bits
6.3% →
COURT 5.31 bits
5.2% →
SOULY 4.61 bits
5.1% →
TOISE 4.55 bits
4.2% →
STAIN 5.03 bits
4.0% →
NASTY 4.10 bits
3.9% →
PLAIT 4.23 bits
3.6% →
TOISE 3.37 bits
3.6% →
COAST 4.56 bits

Research on LAGER

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

Optimal play

Opening with LAGER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #1,028 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 LAGER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.63, 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 LAHGUR.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, LAGER is a kind of camp or beer.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
LAGER sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 10, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 83 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.

In a sentence

Is your friend drinking a lager?
© tatoeba.org contributor tieguy (CC BY 2.0 FR)
What's the difference between ale and lager?
© tatoeba.org contributor shekitten (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); Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0).