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

PAGED

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /peɪd͡ʒd/

Adjective

Having pages

“a multicolor-paged book”

Verb

simple past and past participle of page

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it PAYJD.

Rhymes with WAGED CAGED RAGED

In a sentence

Can I have a friend paged?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I should have paged Tom.
© tatoeba.org contributor CC (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use PAGED in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.1% 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 PAGED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PAGED 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 82.6% of games, misses completely in 17.4%, and leaves about 164 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,097 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 PAGED 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.

4.79 Entropy (bits)
164 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.1% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PAGED 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
#4,097 Rank among openers
Opening with PAGED 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 #4,097 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
65
3 guesses
877
4 guesses
1,227
5 guesses
171
6 guesses
12

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AE

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
35%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

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

415 answers
261 answers
233 answers
156 answers
148 answers
130 answers
68 answers
65 answers
55 answers
49 answers
43 answers
40 answers
39 answers
37 answers
35 answers
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25 answers
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22 answers
22 answers
22 answers
19 answers
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14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3A1G2E1D2
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing PAGED

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PAGED:

17% chance
Suggested:
COURT
11% chance
Suggested:
TERSE
10% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.4% →
COURT 5.91 bits
10.9% →
TERSE 5.45 bits
9.8% →
SLART 5.42 bits
6.5% →
SENOR 4.46 bits
6.2% →
SLART 5.37 bits
5.5% →
SONLY 4.61 bits
2.9% →
GUILT 4.71 bits
2.7% →
SOULY 4.64 bits
2.3% →
DROIT 4.64 bits
2.1% →
DRICE 4.43 bits

Research on PAGED

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

Optimal play

Opening with PAGED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,152 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 PAGED 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PAGED sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.2 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).