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

GAMME

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.7% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɡeɪmiː/

Phrase

Gave me.

“It gamme something to think about.”

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 GAMME performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GAMME 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 78.1% of games, misses completely in 21.9%, and leaves about 244 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,868 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe GAMME 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.

4.14 Entropy (bits)
244 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.7% 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 opening guess: previous benchmark

How GAMME 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
99.75% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#11,868 Rank among openers
Opening with GAMME left 6 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.81 average. It ranks #11,868 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
689
4 guesses
1,297
5 guesses
285
6 guesses
26
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AE

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
36%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

GAMME can come back 76 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

519 answers
367 answers
272 answers
190 answers
159 answers
116 answers
86 answers
68 answers
51 answers
41 answers
36 answers
36 answers
31 answers
26 answers
25 answers
22 answers
21 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2A1M3M3E1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Strategy after playing GAMME

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GAMME:

22% chance
Suggested:
COURT
15% chance
Suggested:
DETER
11% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.9%
COURT 5.86 bits
15.5%
DETER 5.31 bits
11.5%
SLART 5.41 bits
8.0%
SIREN 4.55 bits
6.7%
SONLY 4.48 bits
4.9%
SLART 4.86 bits
3.6%
SLART 4.49 bits
2.9%
SONLY 4.34 bits
2.1%
MUSTY 4.66 bits
1.7%
LATER 3.47 bits

Research on GAMME

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

Optimal play

Opening with GAMME, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.83 guesses and ranks #11,819 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 GAMME can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.81, at or below the proven-optimal 3.83, 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

One syllable Say it GAM. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
GAMME 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).