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GAMER

Yes, GAMER was the Wordle answer on May 20, 2022 (Wordle #335).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɡeɪ̯mə/[ˈɡeɪ̯mə]/ˈɡæ̝ɪ̯mə/

Noun

A person who plays any kind of game.

Noun

A person who games the system.

Adjective

comparative form of game: more game

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: May 20, 2022 (#335).

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How GAMER performs as a guess

GAMER is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 85.3% of games, misses completely in 14.7%, and leaves about 130 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,324 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

G___R G in the 1st position and R in the 5th position G__E_ G in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__R A in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position GA_ER G in the 1st position, A in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe GAMER 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.

5.05 Entropy (bits)
130 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 86% of evaluated openers
0.90 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GAMER 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#4,324 Rank among openers
Opening with GAMER left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.66 average. It ranks #4,324 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
70
3 guesses
911
4 guesses
1,135
5 guesses
221
6 guesses
15
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:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
33%
All gray
15%

Example solver route

R O A T E
G L E A M
G A M E R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GAMER in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

GAMER can come back 113 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

348 answers
221 answers
165 answers
156 answers
123 answers
115 answers
115 answers
95 answers
91 answers
87 answers
59 answers
54 answers
50 answers
36 answers
34 answers
33 answers
31 answers
25 answers
25 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
19 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2A1M3E1R1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

SOILY STILE SLANT COURT SLATE TOISE

Strategy after playing GAMER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GAMER:

15% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
9% chance
Suggested:
STILE
7% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.7% →
SOILY 5.65 bits
9.3% →
STILE 5.35 bits
7.0% →
SLANT 5.28 bits
6.6% →
COURT 5.21 bits
5.2% →
SLATE 5.05 bits
4.8% →
TOISE 4.54 bits
4.8% →
SONLY 4.60 bits
4.0% →
SOILY 3.61 bits
3.8% →
COAST 4.51 bits
3.7% →
SIENT 4.49 bits

Research on GAMER

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

Optimal play

Opening with GAMER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,058 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with GAMER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.66, 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 GAYMUR.

Rhymes with TAMER LAMER NAMER

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, GAMER is a kind of activity or competition.

Synonyms back plot STAKE lame halt spirited

Opposites fit cowardly

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
GAMER sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 4 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.9 of 5).

In a sentence

I want to marry a gamer.
© tatoeba.org contributor menaud (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Tom is a casual gamer.
© tatoeba.org contributor rul (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).