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

PAGNE

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A length of wax-print fabric made in West Africa, worn as a single wrap or made into other clothing, and serving as a form of currency.

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

Etymology

Borrowed from French pagne. Doublet of pane and pannus.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use PAGNE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 94.1% 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 PAGNE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PAGNE 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 84.3% of games, misses completely in 15.7%, and leaves about 141 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,633 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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.

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First-turn measures

All four describe PAGNE 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.

5.06 Entropy (bits)
141 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.1% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PAGNE 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
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#2,633 Rank among openers
Opening with PAGNE left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It ranks #2,633 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
74
3 guesses
920
4 guesses
1,170
5 guesses
176
6 guesses
12

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AEN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
40%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

PAGNE can come back 113 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

375 answers
260 answers
220 answers
128 answers
110 answers
97 answers
83 answers
83 answers
72 answers
60 answers
51 answers
41 answers
40 answers
38 answers
36 answers
34 answers
32 answers
31 answers
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28 answers
27 answers
21 answers
18 answers
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16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3A1G2N1E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing PAGNE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PAGNE:

16% chance
Suggested:
COURT
11% chance
Suggested:
DETER
9% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.7% →
COURT 5.85 bits
10.9% →
DETER 5.46 bits
9.2% →
SLART 5.43 bits
5.4% →
TOISE 4.52 bits
4.6% →
SATYR 4.06 bits
4.1% →
SLART 4.82 bits
3.5% →
SONIC 4.76 bits
3.5% →
TONER 4.20 bits
3.0% →
SLART 4.53 bits
2.5% →
SOULY 4.68 bits

Research on PAGNE

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

Optimal play

Opening with PAGNE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,681 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 PAGNE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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).