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

PLAGE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /pleɪd͡ʒ/

Noun

A bright region in the chromosphere of the Sun.

Noun

A region viewed in the context of its climate; a clime or zone.

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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

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

How PLAGE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PLAGE 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 84.7% of games, misses completely in 15.3%, and leaves about 131 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,040 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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.
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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

P___E P in the 1st position and E in the 5th position P__G_ P in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _L__E L in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe PLAGE 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.

5.16 Entropy (bits)
131 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 90% of evaluated openers
0.79 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PLAGE 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#2,040 Rank among openers
Opening with PLAGE 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 3.62 average. It ranks #2,040 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
76
3 guesses
936
4 guesses
1,161
5 guesses
164
6 guesses
15
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:
AEL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
38%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

PLAGE can come back 114 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

363 answers
252 answers
193 answers
134 answers
97 answers
95 answers
81 answers
81 answers
73 answers
58 answers
50 answers
47 answers
43 answers
40 answers
34 answers
32 answers
29 answers
25 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3L1A1G2E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

COURT DETER RATIO CRISE SILLY CHART

Strategy after playing PLAGE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PLAGE:

15% chance
Suggested:
COURT
11% chance
Suggested:
DETER
8% chance
Suggested:
RATIO

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.3% →
COURT 6.00 bits
10.6% →
DETER 5.47 bits
8.1% →
RATIO 5.06 bits
5.6% →
CRISE 4.54 bits
4.1% →
SILLY 4.89 bits
4.0% →
CHART 4.78 bits
3.4% →
TAKER 4.41 bits
3.4% →
TONAL 4.31 bits
3.1% →
LEVEL 3.96 bits
2.4% →
GROUT 4.80 bits

Research on PLAGE

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

Optimal play

Opening with PLAGE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.64 guesses and ranks #1,145 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.76 guesses at best and is rank #471 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.64, 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

One syllable Say it PLAYJ. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, PLAGE is a kind of beach.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PLAGE 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).