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

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).

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 2,358 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 v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,810 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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.

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

Try next

SLIER REAST TORSE STILE SIENT CORAL
Words starting with W Words ending with N

First-turn measures

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
1.56 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 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
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#6,810 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WAGON 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 (3.45 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
B A C O N
W A G O N

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches WAGON in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

96 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

548
332
253
168
140
67
65
56
55
49
41
38
35
28
27
24
22
22
21
21
19
17
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14
14
13
11
11
11
11

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 5.64 bits
10.7% →
TORSE 5.36 bits
7.1% →
STILE 4.84 bits
5.9% →
SIENT 5.22 bits
2.8% →
CORAL 4.37 bits
2.8% →
CRUSE 4.48 bits
2.4% →
SLAKE 4.25 bits
2.3% →
SIDLE 4.96 bits
2.1% →
TROPE 4.05 bits

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.