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

NAGES

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

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

Meaning and pronunciation

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

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Related meanings

Synonyms plug hack jade peck

Use NAGES in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 95.0% 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 NAGES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NAGES 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 87.4% of games, misses completely in 12.6%, and leaves about 119 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,786 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe NAGES 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.

5.05 Entropy (bits)
119 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.0% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How NAGES 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#3,786 Rank among openers
Opening with NAGES left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.65 average. It ranks #3,786 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
71
3 guesses
877
4 guesses
1,222
5 guesses
169
6 guesses
13

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AENS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
29%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

NAGES can come back 98 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

301 answers
202 answers
170 answers
155 answers
142 answers
134 answers
107 answers
102 answers
88 answers
78 answers
58 answers
52 answers
46 answers
43 answers
41 answers
39 answers
37 answers
37 answers
32 answers
32 answers
32 answers
29 answers
24 answers
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22 answers
21 answers
18 answers
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16 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1A1G2E1S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing NAGES

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NAGES:

13% chance
Suggested:
COULD
8% chance
Suggested:
TRICE
7% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.6% →
COULD 5.63 bits
8.5% →
TRICE 5.45 bits
7.1% →
TRAIL 5.28 bits
6.5% →
SPILT 5.03 bits
6.0% →
OLDER 4.20 bits
5.6% →
DEALT 4.93 bits
4.5% →
COUNT 5.06 bits
4.3% →
TARDY 4.16 bits
3.7% →
PORTE 4.81 bits
3.3% →
SHALT 4.65 bits

Research on NAGES

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

Optimal play

Opening with NAGES, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,511 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 NAGES can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.66, 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); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0).