5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

GADID

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Any fish of the family Gadidae.

Adjective

Of or related to any fish of the family Gadidae.

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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

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

How GADID performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GADID 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 71.5% of games, misses completely in 28.5%, and leaves about 318 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,920 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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.

G___D G in the 1st position and D in the 5th position G__I_ G in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _A__D A in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

SOREL SLATE STIRE TORSE CONTE RONTE
Words starting with G Words ending with D

First-turn measures

3.90 Entropy (bits)
318 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 18% of evaluated openers
2.05 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GADID 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#11,920 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GADID ranks #11,920 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
728
4 guesses
1,230
5 guesses
333
6 guesses
16
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AI

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
29%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

77 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

672
387
281
205
68
68
49
46
45
42
42
35
33
31
27
24
22
22
18
17
16
16
13
13
12
11
9
9
9
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GADID:

28% chance
Suggested:
SOREL
16% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
12% chance
Suggested:
STIRE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.5% →
SOREL 6.06 bits
16.4% →
SLATE 5.61 bits
11.9% →
STIRE 5.26 bits
8.7% →
TORSE 4.86 bits
2.9% →
CONTE 4.80 bits
2.9% →
RONTE 4.91 bits
2.1% →
STONE 4.22 bits
2.0% →
LOURE 4.81 bits
1.9% →
LOURE 4.70 bits
1.8% →
SNORE 4.14 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2A1D2I1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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