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

GADDI

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of gadi.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use GADDI in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 85.7% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How GADDI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GADDI 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 71.4% of games, misses completely in 28.6%, and leaves about 341 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,892 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.84 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe GADDI 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.

3.70 Entropy (bits)
341 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.7% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GADDI 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.

3.84 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#12,892 Rank among openers
Opening with GADDI left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.84 average. It ranks #12,892 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
677
4 guesses
1,276
5 guesses
339
6 guesses
19

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AI

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
23%
All gray
29%

Feedback distribution

GADDI can come back 66 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

682 answers
390 answers
351 answers
207 answers
88 answers
66 answers
57 answers
54 answers
47 answers
46 answers
45 answers
32 answers
31 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
19 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2A1D2D2I1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing GADDI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GADDI:

29% chance
Suggested:
SOREL
16% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
15% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.6% →
SOREL 6.06 bits
16.4% →
SLATE 5.61 bits
14.7% →
TRINE 5.27 bits
8.7% →
TORSE 4.86 bits
3.7% →
SENOR 4.91 bits
2.8% →
ANVIL 4.51 bits
2.4% →
DROLE 4.39 bits
2.3% →
STONE 4.23 bits
2.0% →
DROLE 4.49 bits
1.9% →
LOURE 4.81 bits

Research on GADDI

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

Optimal play

Opening with GADDI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.83 guesses and ranks #11,889 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with GADDI can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.84; proven optimal play reaches 3.83. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
GADDI sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).