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

GAJOS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of gajo

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

Use GAJOS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 89.8% 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 GAJOS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GAJOS 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 77.6% of games, misses completely in 22.4%, and leaves about 243 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,878 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 GAJOS 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.

4.01 Entropy (bits)
243 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GAJOS 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
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#12,878 Rank among openers
Opening with GAJOS 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 3.84 average. It ranks #12,878 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
681
4 guesses
1,277
5 guesses
332
6 guesses
23

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
23%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

GAJOS can come back 61 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

534 answers
295 answers
264 answers
229 answers
178 answers
143 answers
102 answers
72 answers
71 answers
58 answers
53 answers
33 answers
30 answers
28 answers
26 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
19 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2A1J8O1S1
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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

Strategy after playing GAJOS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GAJOS:

22% chance
Suggested:
LINER
12% chance
Suggested:
LEARN
11% chance
Suggested:
TRONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.4% →
LINER 5.87 bits
12.4% →
LEARN 5.38 bits
11.1% →
TRONE 5.20 bits
9.6% →
STILE 5.33 bits
7.5% →
TRICE 4.80 bits
6.0% →
THALE 4.68 bits
4.3% →
STORE 4.59 bits
3.0% →
CORAL 4.34 bits
3.0% →
REIGN 4.80 bits
2.4% →
TRIDE 4.32 bits

Research on GAJOS

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

Optimal play

Opening with GAJOS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.84 guesses and ranks #12,444 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.98 guesses at best and is rank #5,907 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.84, at or below the proven-optimal 3.84, because the two figures score different answer lists.

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).