5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

GALAH

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɡəˈlɑː/

Noun

A member of species Eolophus roseicapilla of pink and grey species of cockatoos, native to Australia.

Noun

A fool, an idiot.

“That galah nearly drove me off the road.”

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 GALAH performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GALAH 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 69.4% of games, misses completely in 30.6%, and leaves about 294 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,946 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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___H G in the 1st position and H in the 5th position G__A_ G in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _A__H A in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Try next

TRONE SLIER CRATE TRINE STIRE SLATE
Words starting with G Words ending with H

First-turn measures

4.15 Entropy (bits)
294 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 30% of evaluated openers
1.80 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GALAH 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#8,946 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GALAH ranks #8,946 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
809
4 guesses
1,223
5 guesses
256
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:
AL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
69%
Green tile
32%
All gray
31%

Feedback distribution

80 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

721
231
202
155
124
101
77
70
57
51
51
49
45
33
20
19
19
19
18
17
16
16
15
15
14
13
12
11
11
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GALAH:

31% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
10% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
9% chance
Suggested:
CRATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.6% →
TRONE 6.11 bits
9.8% →
SLIER 5.09 bits
8.6% →
CRATE 5.40 bits
6.6% →
TRINE 4.99 bits
5.3% →
STIRE 5.65 bits
4.3% →
SLATE 4.42 bits
3.3% →
IRONE 4.91 bits
3.0% →
RUOTE 4.67 bits
2.4% →
TRODE 4.42 bits
2.2% →
SIDLE 4.46 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2A1L1A1H4
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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