5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

GAMAS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Proper noun

plural of Gama

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 GAMAS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GAMAS 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 68.9% of games, misses completely in 31.1%, and leaves about 323 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,590 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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__A_ G in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE ROUET ALERT TRICE THALE NOIRE
Words starting with G Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.91 Entropy (bits)
323 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 19% of evaluated openers
2.04 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GAMAS 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#10,590 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GAMAS ranks #10,590 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
769
4 guesses
1,233
5 guesses
286
6 guesses
20
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:
AS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
69%
Green tile
27%
All gray
31%

Feedback distribution

72 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

734
312
223
160
106
100
89
85
53
49
40
33
32
25
24
22
20
18
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9
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7
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6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GAMAS:

31% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
13% chance
Suggested:
ROUET
9% chance
Suggested:
ALERT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.1% →
TOILE 5.98 bits
13.2% →
ROUET 5.45 bits
9.5% →
ALERT 5.35 bits
6.8% →
TRICE 4.86 bits
4.5% →
THALE 4.59 bits
4.2% →
NOIRE 5.07 bits
3.8% →
ROUTE 5.19 bits
3.6% →
CRUET 4.53 bits
2.2% →
DROLE 5.08 bits
2.1% →
STILE 4.18 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2A1M3A1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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