5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

GAMAY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 83.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative letter-case form of Gamay.

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 GAMAY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GAMAY 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 63.4% of games, misses completely in 36.6%, and leaves about 396 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,291 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 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___Y G in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position G__A_ G in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _A__Y A in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

TRINE SLART TOILE TRICE NOIRE ROUTE
Words starting with G Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.76 Entropy (bits)
396 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 13% of evaluated openers
2.19 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GAMAY 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.

3.82 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#12,291 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GAMAY ranks #12,291 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
709
4 guesses
1,258
5 guesses
325
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
A

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
63%
Green tile
36%
All gray
37%

Feedback distribution

72 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

863
302
183
141
100
99
97
63
49
41
30
27
23
22
22
20
20
19
15
14
14
11
10
10
9
8
8
7
6
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GAMAY:

37% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
13% chance
Suggested:
SLART
8% chance
Suggested:
TOILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

36.6% →
TRINE 6.08 bits
12.8% →
SLART 5.40 bits
7.8% →
TOILE 4.56 bits
6.0% →
TRICE 4.87 bits
4.2% →
NOIRE 5.00 bits
4.2% →
ROUTE 5.32 bits
4.1% →
CRUET 4.67 bits
2.7% →
SLART 3.44 bits
2.1% →
URITE 4.93 bits
1.7% →
PRASE 4.37 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2A1M3A1Y4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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