5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

GAPES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɡeɪps/

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of gape

Noun

plural of gape

Noun

A fit of yawning.

“The gapes is contagious: when one person gets the gapes, pretty soon you've got a roomful of gapers.”

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 GAPES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GAPES 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 85.6% of games, misses completely in 14.4%, and leaves about 136 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,358 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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__E_ G in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position GA_ES G in the 1st position, A in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

Try next

COURT TRINE TRAIL OLDER HOIST TRADE
Words starting with G Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.91 Entropy (bits)
136 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 78% of evaluated openers
1.04 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GAPES 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
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#4,358 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GAPES ranks #4,358 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
66
3 guesses
887
4 guesses
1,194
5 guesses
195
6 guesses
11
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AES

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
31%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

96 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

340
225
189
159
148
137
123
84
76
63
56
47
41
39
36
35
34
32
32
27
25
22
18
17
16
15
14
14
14
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GAPES:

14% chance
Suggested:
COURT
10% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
8% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.4% →
COURT 5.80 bits
9.5% →
TRINE 5.24 bits
8.0% →
TRAIL 5.31 bits
6.7% →
OLDER 4.23 bits
6.3% →
HOIST 5.09 bits
5.8% →
TRADE 4.76 bits
5.2% →
CLARY 3.97 bits
3.6% →
RONTE 4.62 bits
3.2% →
SHALT 4.60 bits
2.7% →
POUTY 4.87 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2A1P3E1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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