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GAFFE

GAFFE is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 88.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɡæf/

Noun

A foolish and embarrassing error, especially one made in public; a social blunder; a breach of etiquette.

“make a gaffe”

Alternative forms: gaff

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

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 GAFFE performs as a guess

GAFFE 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 77.0% of games, misses completely in 23.0%, and leaves about 261 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,392 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.86 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___E G in the 1st position and E in the 5th position G__F_ G in the 1st position and F in the 4th position _A__E A in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

COURT DETER SLART CRISE SONLY ALERT
Words starting with G Words ending with E

First-turn measures

3.95 Entropy (bits)
261 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
88.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 20% of evaluated openers
2.00 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GAFFE 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.

3.86 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#13,392 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GAFFE ranks #13,392 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
37
3 guesses
639
4 guesses
1,307
5 guesses
340
6 guesses
27
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:
AE

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
35%
All gray
23%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S M I L Y
B O U G H
G A F F E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GAFFE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

64 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

542
360
284
203
171
124
89
66
50
45
39
39
32
29
23
21
18
17
17
13
12
11
10
10
10
9
9
9
8
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GAFFE:

23% chance
Suggested:
COURT
15% chance
Suggested:
DETER
12% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.0% →
COURT 5.86 bits
15.3% →
DETER 5.34 bits
12.0% →
SLART 5.38 bits
8.6% →
CRISE 4.46 bits
7.3% →
SONLY 4.52 bits
5.3% →
ALERT 4.65 bits
3.8% →
SLART 4.46 bits
2.8% →
SOILY 4.38 bits
2.1% →
SONLY 4.40 bits
1.9% →
LATER 3.57 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2A1F4F4E1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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