5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

GANGS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of gang

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of gang

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 GANGS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GANGS 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 72.9% of games, misses completely in 27.1%, and leaves about 285 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,165 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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__G_ G in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE ALERT STIRE TRICE THALE CRINE
Words starting with G Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.94 Entropy (bits)
285 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 20% of evaluated openers
2.01 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GANGS 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#11,165 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GANGS ranks #11,165 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
35
3 guesses
731
4 guesses
1,295
5 guesses
271
6 guesses
16
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
1 vowels
Common:
ANS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
26%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

64 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

640
310
278
157
157
131
66
61
59
48
47
32
31
28
27
23
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GANGS:

27% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
13% chance
Suggested:
ALERT
12% chance
Suggested:
STIRE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.1% →
TOILE 6.03 bits
13.1% →
ALERT 5.53 bits
11.8% →
STIRE 5.45 bits
6.7% →
TOILE 5.33 bits
6.7% →
TRICE 4.69 bits
5.6% →
THALE 4.78 bits
2.8% →
TRICE 4.19 bits
2.6% →
CRINE 4.54 bits
2.5% →
RUOTE 4.45 bits
2.0% →
STILE 4.04 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2A1N1G2S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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