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

GAMBO

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɡæm.bəʊ//ˈɡæm.boʊ/

Noun

A low, flat cart, typically two-wheeled and with the sides consisting only of poles, used for carrying hay, corn, etc., over fields or uneven ground.

Noun

A viol.

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 GAMBO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GAMBO 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 74.9% of games, misses completely in 25.1%, and leaves about 273 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,472 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

G___O G in the 1st position and O in the 5th position G__B_ G in the 1st position and B in the 4th position _A__O A in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in GAMBO.

First-turn measures

All four describe GAMBO 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.

4.11 Entropy (bits)
273 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 28% of evaluated openers
1.84 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GAMBO 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#8,472 Rank among openers
Opening with GAMBO solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.73 average. It ranks #8,472 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
799
4 guesses
1,246
5 guesses
244
6 guesses
12
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
22%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

GAMBO can come back 81 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

597 answers
339 answers
331 answers
179 answers
78 answers
72 answers
68 answers
67 answers
51 answers
44 answers
39 answers
38 answers
37 answers
28 answers
27 answers
26 answers
26 answers
26 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
17 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2A1M3B3O1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Try next

SLIER SLATE TRONE TRINE TONAL SLIDE

Strategy after playing GAMBO

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GAMBO:

25% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
14% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
14% chance
Suggested:
TRONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.1% →
SLIER 6.07 bits
14.3% →
SLATE 5.61 bits
13.9% →
TRONE 5.31 bits
7.5% →
TRINE 4.77 bits
3.3% →
SLIER 5.12 bits
3.0% →
TONAL 4.37 bits
2.9% →
SLIDE 4.63 bits
2.8% →
SUCRE 5.06 bits
2.1% →
PRASE 4.56 bits
1.9% →
BEARD 4.54 bits

Research on GAMBO

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

Optimal play

Opening with GAMBO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #9,081 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.87 guesses at best and is rank #3,348 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.73, at or below the proven-optimal 3.77, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it GAMBOH. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
GAMBO sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).