5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

GAINS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɡeɪnz/

Noun

plural of gain

Noun

Increase in muscle mass.

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of gain

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 GAINS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GAINS 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 82.6% of games, misses completely in 17.4%, and leaves about 154 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,689 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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___S G in the 1st position and S in the 5th position G__N_ G in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ROUET TRACE PORTE TILDE CLOTE THALE
Words starting with G Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.90 Entropy (bits)
154 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 78% of evaluated openers
1.05 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GAINS 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#2,689 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GAINS ranks #2,689 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
68
3 guesses
949
4 guesses
1,132
5 guesses
182
6 guesses
19
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AINS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
34%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

107 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

410
255
191
140
134
121
97
90
57
53
43
41
41
40
34
34
33
33
29
22
22
19
18
17
16
16
15
14
14
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GAINS:

17% chance
Suggested:
ROUET
11% chance
Suggested:
TRACE
8% chance
Suggested:
PORTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.4% →
ROUET 5.87 bits
10.8% →
TRACE 5.49 bits
8.1% →
PORTE 5.50 bits
5.9% →
TILDE 5.18 bits
5.7% →
CLOTE 4.74 bits
5.1% →
THALE 4.80 bits
4.1% →
COREY 4.82 bits
3.8% →
TRUCE 5.07 bits
2.4% →
TONEY 4.18 bits
2.2% →
PLORE 4.12 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2A1I1N1S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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