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

GADJO

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A non-Roma, a non-Romani person.

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Romani gaʒo. Doublet of gadgie and gorger.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use GADJO in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 86.6% 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 GADJO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GADJO 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 72.9% of games, misses completely in 27.1%, and leaves about 319 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,704 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 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 GADJO 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.

3.76 Entropy (bits)
319 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GADJO 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#12,704 Rank among openers
Opening with GADJO left 2 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 3.83 average. It ranks #12,704 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
683
4 guesses
1,271
5 guesses
344
6 guesses
13

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
22%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

GADJO can come back 64 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

646 answers
375 answers
352 answers
199 answers
112 answers
81 answers
70 answers
62 answers
61 answers
34 answers
31 answers
27 answers
26 answers
24 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
20 answers
20 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
11 answers
11 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2A1D2J8O1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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

Strategy after playing GADJO

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GADJO:

27% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
16% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
15% chance
Suggested:
TORSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.1% →
SLIER 6.07 bits
15.7% →
SLATE 5.61 bits
14.8% →
TORSE 5.37 bits
8.3% →
STILE 4.82 bits
4.7% →
SLIER 5.12 bits
3.4% →
CORAL 4.49 bits
2.9% →
STILE 4.75 bits
2.6% →
DONOR 4.37 bits
2.6% →
BEARD 4.56 bits
1.4% →
TUILE 4.71 bits

Research on GADJO

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

Optimal play

Opening with GADJO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.83 guesses and ranks #11,838 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 GADJO can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.83; 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).