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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

GAUNT

Yes, GAUNT was the Wordle answer on July 10, 2024 (Wordle #1117).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɡɔːnt//ɡɑːnt//ɡɔnt/

Adjective

Angular, bony, and lean.

Adjective

Unhealthily thin, as from hunger or illness: drawn, emaciated, haggard.

Alternative forms: gant, gent, ghent, gont

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: July 10, 2024 (#1117).

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

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How GAUNT performs as a guess

GAUNT 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 80.4% of games, misses completely in 19.6%, and leaves about 169 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,899 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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___T G in the 1st position and T in the 5th position G__N_ G in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _A__T A in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

SOLER PEARL SHORE SILER SOREL SURLY
Words starting with G Words ending with T

First-turn measures

4.88 Entropy (bits)
169 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 77% of evaluated openers
1.07 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GAUNT 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#1,899 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GAUNT ranks #1,899 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
65
3 guesses
984
4 guesses
1,099
5 guesses
189
6 guesses
14
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:
ANTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
37%
All gray
20%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GAUNT in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

113 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

462
280
154
130
127
113
80
78
56
53
51
51
43
43
36
31
29
28
23
21
20
20
19
18
17
16
15
14
14
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GAUNT:

20% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
12% chance
Suggested:
PEARL
7% chance
Suggested:
SHORE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.6% →
SOLER 5.95 bits
11.9% →
PEARL 5.40 bits
6.5% →
SHORE 5.43 bits
5.5% →
SILER 5.12 bits
5.4% →
SOREL 4.83 bits
4.8% →
SURLY 4.73 bits
3.4% →
SERAL 4.91 bits
3.3% →
SLIER 5.20 bits
2.4% →
TRITE 4.10 bits
2.2% →
SLIPE 4.60 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2A1U1N1T1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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