5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

STAGE

Yes, STAGE was the Wordle answer on February 9, 2023 (Wordle #600).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /steɪd͡ʒ//stɑːʒ/

Noun

A phase.

“He is in the recovery stage of his illness.”

Noun

One of the portions of a device (such as a rocket or thermonuclear weapon) which are used or activated in a particular order, one after another.

“The first stage of the launcher burned out and separated after successfully boosting the payload onto a suborbital trajectory, but the engine of the upper stage failed to ignite to place the satellite into orbit.”

Verb

To produce on a stage, to perform a play.

“The local theater group will stage "Pride and Prejudice".”

Verb

To arrange in a manner intended to deceive.

“The salesman's demonstration of the new cleanser was staged to make it appear highly effective.”

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: February 9, 2023 (#600).

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

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How STAGE performs as a guess

STAGE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 88.0% of games, misses completely in 12.0%, and leaves about 104 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,067 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.

Useful pattern pages

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

S___E S in the 1st position and E in the 5th position S__G_ S in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _T__E T in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

COULD OLDER CAROL TROUT NOIRE DETER
Words starting with S Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.34 Entropy (bits)
104 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 96% of evaluated openers
0.61 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How STAGE 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
99.9% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#2,067 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, STAGE ranks #2,067 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
69
3 guesses
921
4 guesses
1,203
5 guesses
147
6 guesses
11
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AEST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
40%
All gray
12%

Example solver route

R O A T E
B E V E L
S T A G E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches STAGE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

108 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

283
223
181
128
101
86
83
83
78
69
55
48
37
36
36
35
35
34
31
28
27
25
25
23
23
23
22
22
22
20

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing STAGE:

12% chance
Suggested:
COULD
9% chance
Suggested:
OLDER
8% chance
Suggested:
CAROL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.0% →
COULD 5.62 bits
9.5% →
OLDER 5.07 bits
7.7% →
CAROL 5.35 bits
5.4% →
TROUT 5.10 bits
4.3% →
NOIRE 4.42 bits
3.6% →
DETER 4.69 bits
3.5% →
RENAL 4.61 bits
3.5% →
TACIT 4.42 bits
3.3% →
SLINK 4.17 bits
2.9% →
CRINE 4.21 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1T1A1G2E1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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