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

PAGRI

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A headdress worn by men in India, comprising a several-metre-long band of fabric wound around the head.

Noun

A puggry.

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindustani पगड़ी (pagṛī) / پگڑی.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use PAGRI in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.2% 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 PAGRI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PAGRI 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 83.9% of games, misses completely in 16.1%, and leaves about 162 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,948 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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 PAGRI 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.

4.71 Entropy (bits)
162 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.2% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PAGRI 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#4,948 Rank among openers
Opening with PAGRI solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.67 average. It ranks #4,948 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
903
4 guesses
1,192
5 guesses
194
6 guesses
15

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
27%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

PAGRI can come back 87 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

385 answers
241 answers
237 answers
237 answers
137 answers
102 answers
94 answers
60 answers
55 answers
54 answers
51 answers
51 answers
50 answers
49 answers
35 answers
32 answers
31 answers
26 answers
25 answers
25 answers
24 answers
21 answers
21 answers
21 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3A1G2R1I1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing PAGRI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PAGRI:

16% chance
Suggested:
STOLE
10% chance
Suggested:
STILE
10% chance
Suggested:
TOUSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.1% →
STOLE 5.93 bits
10.1% →
STILE 5.29 bits
9.9% →
TOUSE 5.39 bits
9.9% →
SLATE 5.77 bits
5.7% →
CLOTE 4.76 bits
4.3% →
BEAST 4.51 bits
3.9% →
SNIDE 4.37 bits
2.5% →
STOLE 4.80 bits
2.3% →
SOLDE 4.80 bits
2.3% →
TORSE 3.79 bits

Research on PAGRI

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

Optimal play

Opening with PAGRI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #5,066 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.81 guesses at best and is rank #1,649 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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).