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WAGON

Yes, WAGON was the Wordle answer on October 3, 2024 (Wordle #1202).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈwæɡən/[ˈwæɡən] ~ [ˈwæɡn̩]/ˈwaɡən/

Noun

A heavier four-wheeled (normally horse-drawn) vehicle designed to carry goods (or sometimes people).

Noun

Abbreviation of toy wagon; A child's riding toy, with the same structure as a wagon (sense 1), pulled or steered by a long handle attached to the front.

Verb

To load into a wagon in preparation for transportation; to transport by means of a wagon.

Verb

To travel in a wagon.

Alternative forms: waggon

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: October 3, 2024 (#1202).

See the full page for that puzzle: October 3, 2024 (#1202).

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

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How WAGON performs as a guess

WAGON is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 76.8% of games, misses completely in 23.2%, and leaves about 234 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,810 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

W___N W in the 1st position and N in the 5th position W__O_ W in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _A__N A in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe WAGON 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.

4.39 Entropy (bits)
234 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 44% of evaluated openers
1.55 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How WAGON 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#6,810 Rank among openers
Opening with WAGON 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 3.70 average. It ranks #6,810 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
56
3 guesses
844
4 guesses
1,208
5 guesses
235
6 guesses
8
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:
ANO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
26%
All gray
23%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S A L O N
C A N O N
W A G O N

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches WAGON in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

WAGON can come back 97 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

550 answers
334 answers
254 answers
168 answers
144 answers
68 answers
65 answers
56 answers
56 answers
49 answers
41 answers
39 answers
35 answers
28 answers
27 answers
24 answers
22 answers
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11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4A1G2O1N1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

SLIER REAST TORSE SLYER TRICE CORAL

Strategy after playing WAGON

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WAGON:

23% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
14% chance
Suggested:
REAST
11% chance
Suggested:
TORSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.2% →
SLIER 6.10 bits
14.1% →
REAST 5.65 bits
10.7% →
TORSE 5.36 bits
7.1% →
SLYER 4.74 bits
6.1% →
TRICE 5.14 bits
2.9% →
CORAL 4.37 bits
2.7% →
CRUSE 4.48 bits
2.4% →
SIDLE 4.95 bits
2.4% →
SLAKE 4.25 bits
2.1% →
TROPE 4.05 bits

Research on WAGON

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

Optimal play

Opening with WAGON, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #7,814 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.86 guesses at best and is rank #3,106 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.70, at or below the proven-optimal 3.75, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it WAGUHN.

Rhymes with LAGAN

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, WAGON is a kind of vehicle or van.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
WAGON sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 8 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 7, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 84 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.9 of 5).

In a sentence

Do you have a wagon?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
My father is on the wagon.
© tatoeba.org contributor qdii (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).