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GAUDY

Yes, GAUDY was the Wordle answer on November 15, 2021 (Wordle #149).

As an opener, it rules out about 89.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɡɔː.di//ˈɡɔ.di//ˈɡɑ.di/

Adjective

Very showy or ornamented, now especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner.

Noun

A reunion held by one of the colleges of the University of Oxford for alumni, normally during the long vacation.

Adjective

Fun; merry; festive.

Noun

One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: November 15, 2021 (#149).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How GAUDY performs as a guess

GAUDY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 74.4% of games, misses completely in 25.6%, and leaves about 256 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,702 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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___Y G in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position G__D_ G in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _A__Y A in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

TORSE SLATE RONTE SLIER STOLE TRIED
Words starting with G Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

4.30 Entropy (bits)
256 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
89.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 39% of evaluated openers
1.65 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GAUDY 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#8,702 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GAUDY ranks #8,702 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
802
4 guesses
1,228
5 guesses
257
6 guesses
13
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:
AU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
36%
All gray
26%

Example solver route

R O A T E
N A S A L
D U C H Y
G A U D Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GAUDY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

93 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

604
374
160
133
125
109
90
63
57
50
43
36
35
33
29
22
20
20
17
17
17
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13
11
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11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GAUDY:

26% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
16% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
7% chance
Suggested:
RONTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.6% →
TORSE 6.14 bits
15.9% →
SLATE 5.60 bits
6.8% →
RONTE 4.88 bits
5.6% →
SLIER 5.21 bits
5.3% →
STOLE 4.65 bits
4.6% →
TRIED 5.21 bits
3.8% →
STOLE 4.55 bits
2.7% →
TREAD 4.63 bits
2.4% →
TRONE 4.71 bits
2.1% →
TORSE 3.53 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2A1U1D2Y4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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