5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

GARTH

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɡɑː(ɹ)θ/

Noun

A grassy quadrangle surrounded by cloisters.

Noun

A close; a yard; a croft; a garden.

“a cloister garth”

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 GARTH performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GARTH 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 82.7% of games, misses completely in 17.3%, and leaves about 148 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,324 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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___H G in the 1st position and H in the 5th position G__T_ G in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _A__H A in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Try next

MOILE SOLED SLICE SIENT BRACE SONLY
Words starting with G Words ending with H

First-turn measures

4.95 Entropy (bits)
148 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 81% of evaluated openers
0.99 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GARTH 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#1,324 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GARTH ranks #1,324 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
60
3 guesses
982
4 guesses
1,146
5 guesses
156
6 guesses
10
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
1 vowels
Common:
ART

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
31%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

108 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

408
240
186
149
115
108
83
81
70
66
60
42
41
38
38
37
35
34
26
24
24
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19
16
16
15
14
14
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GARTH:

17% chance
Suggested:
MOILE
10% chance
Suggested:
SOLED
8% chance
Suggested:
SLICE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.3% →
MOILE 5.97 bits
10.2% →
SOLED 4.97 bits
7.9% →
SLICE 5.39 bits
6.3% →
SIENT 5.34 bits
4.9% →
BRACE 4.62 bits
4.6% →
SONLY 4.77 bits
3.5% →
NOISE 4.64 bits
3.4% →
SLADE 4.80 bits
3.0% →
SINCE 5.18 bits
2.8% →
LUNGE 4.74 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2A1R1T1H4
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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