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Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

GAWKS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of gawk

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 GAWKS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GAWKS 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 70.2% of games, misses completely in 29.8%, and leaves about 317 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,214 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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___S G in the 1st position and S in the 5th position G__K_ G in the 1st position and K in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE ALERT ROUET RONTE STALE NOIRE
Words starting with G Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.83 Entropy (bits)
317 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 16% of evaluated openers
2.12 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GAWKS 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#11,214 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GAWKS ranks #11,214 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
28
3 guesses
723
4 guesses
1,334
5 guesses
255
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
1 vowels
Common:
AS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
22%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

55 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

703
316
268
187
117
98
67
57
57
51
33
32
30
30
27
25
22
22
21
18
17
14
13
13
12
10
10
9
9
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GAWKS:

30% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
13% chance
Suggested:
ALERT
11% chance
Suggested:
ROUET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.8% →
TOILE 5.98 bits
13.4% →
ALERT 5.62 bits
11.4% →
ROUET 5.55 bits
7.9% →
RONTE 4.80 bits
5.0% →
STALE 4.90 bits
4.2% →
NOIRE 4.97 bits
2.8% →
RONTE 4.99 bits
2.4% →
STILE 4.07 bits
2.4% →
MOILE 5.00 bits
2.2% →
CRINE 4.66 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2A1W4K5S1
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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