Wordle #927 hints & answer for January 2, 2024
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Hints for Wordle #927
What kind of word
Wiktionary lists it as a verb.
What it means
“The process of becoming older or more mature.”
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Fill the gap
“The _____ artist could no longer steadily hold the brush.”
Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentence selected from Wiktionary, with the answer removed.
Where the vowels sit
The vowels are the first and third letters.
How it ends
Ends in G.
Reveal the answer and explanation
The answer to Wordle #927 was
AGING: present participle and gerund of age
Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.
Why it may be difficult: a repeated letter.
The word rating describes familiarity and letter features. The solver score below measures how a fixed strategy handles the puzzle; an unusual word can still be easy for that strategy.
How difficult was it for the solver?
Solver pressure: 18/100 (easier for the solver). This is a percentile among past puzzles under the same strategy: 0 is easiest and 100 is hardest for the solver.
This compares past puzzles under the same solver settings; it does not measure how players performed. Compare more puzzles →
Wordle #927, measured
This section compares AGING's solver-difficulty percentile, first-guess results for ten familiar openers, and opt-in player reports. Each number identifies its dataset.
Solver difficulty, as a percentile
This score is a percentile, not an opinion. Under the site's fixed solver settings, AGING measured harder for the solver than about 18% of all 1,953 recorded answers to date. Its rating is easier for the solver. It repeats G; CRANE, SLATE and ADIEU leave about 57 possible answers.
Solver pressure ranks the answer within the pool; it does not measure player performance. The opener table compares first-guess results, and the contributed ratings report player results.
CRANE, SLATE and ADIEU benchmark
ARISE left the fewest candidates: its first-guess feedback left 9 of the 2,385 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, SLATE left 141 candidates, about 16 times as many.
| Opener | First-guess feedback | Answers still possible |
|---|---|---|
| ARISE | ARISE | 9 |
| ADIEU | ADIEU | 10 |
| RAISE | RAISE | 12 |
| AUDIO | AUDIO | 16 |
| CRANE | CRANE | 20 |
| TARSE | TARSE | 102 |
| SALET | SALET | 105 |
| STARE | STARE | 132 |
| TRACE | TRACE | 133 |
| SLATE | SLATE | 141 |
“Answers still possible” counts the words in the site's 2,385-word working answer pool whose feedback would match that opener exactly. This is pattern arithmetic, not a simulation. A smaller number means the opener left fewer possible answers after the first guess. It does not describe later turns.
Contributed player ratings
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See the solver's route to AGING → It shows which guesses reduced the candidate pool on each turn.
Solver replay
One route our solver takes from its usual opening word to AGING.
The solver reaches the answer in 3 guesses.
Common questions
- What was the Wordle answer for January 2, 2024?
- The Wordle answer for January 2, 2024 (puzzle #927) was AGING.
- What does AGING mean?
- AGING: present participle and gerund of age
- Why was Wordle #927 tricky?
- AGING is rated moderate for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be difficult: a repeated letter.