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

GAUJE

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of gadjo (“non-Roma”).

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use GAUJE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 91.6% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How GAUJE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GAUJE 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 83.8% of games, misses completely in 16.2%, and leaves about 200 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,909 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.84 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe GAUJE 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.

4.31 Entropy (bits)
200 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GAUJE 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.

3.84 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#12,909 Rank among openers
Opening with GAUJE left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.84 average. It ranks #12,909 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
43
3 guesses
677
4 guesses
1,271
5 guesses
333
6 guesses
26

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AEU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
38%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

GAUJE can come back 74 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

386 answers
358 answers
281 answers
166 answers
164 answers
135 answers
131 answers
90 answers
89 answers
49 answers
49 answers
41 answers
34 answers
31 answers
29 answers
26 answers
21 answers
19 answers
19 answers
16 answers
16 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2A1U1J8E1
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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

Strategy after playing GAUJE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GAUJE:

16% chance
Suggested:
STORY
15% chance
Suggested:
DETER
12% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.2% →
STORY 5.55 bits
15.0% →
DETER 5.35 bits
11.8% →
SLART 5.33 bits
7.0% →
SONLY 4.43 bits
6.9% →
SIREN 4.54 bits
5.7% →
SURLY 4.58 bits
5.5% →
ALERT 4.67 bits
3.8% →
SLANT 4.45 bits
3.7% →
SLART 4.42 bits
2.1% →
LATER 3.51 bits

Research on GAUJE

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

Optimal play

Opening with GAUJE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.84 guesses and ranks #12,482 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with GAUJE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.84, at or below the proven-optimal 3.84, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).