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

GASPY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.1% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Resembling or characterised by gasps.

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 GASPY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GASPY 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 75.8% of games, misses completely in 24.2%, and leaves about 234 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,154 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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.

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First-turn measures

All four describe GASPY 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.

4.36 Entropy (bits)
234 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 42% of evaluated openers
1.59 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GASPY 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#5,154 Rank among openers
Opening with GASPY solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.67 average. It ranks #5,154 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
882
4 guesses
1,209
5 guesses
199
6 guesses
10
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
AS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
32%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

GASPY can come back 91 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

574 answers
299 answers
229 answers
138 answers
131 answers
120 answers
93 answers
88 answers
59 answers
45 answers
45 answers
40 answers
31 answers
31 answers
24 answers
24 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers
17 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
9 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2A1S1P3Y4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Strategy after playing GASPY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GASPY:

24% chance
Suggested:
TONER
13% chance
Suggested:
ALERT
10% chance
Suggested:
STIRE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.2%
TONER 6.12 bits
12.6%
ALERT 5.55 bits
9.6%
STIRE 5.46 bits
5.8%
DROLE 4.79 bits
5.5%
CONTE 4.94 bits
5.1%
STALE 4.79 bits
3.9%
PRICE 5.24 bits
3.7%
NOIRE 5.06 bits
2.5%
STOLE 4.47 bits
1.9%
TRINE 3.42 bits

Research on GASPY

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

Optimal play

Opening with GASPY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #6,867 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.85 guesses at best and is rank #2,959 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, 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 GASPEE. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.