5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

GAYAL

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɡəˈjæl/

Noun

Bos frontalis, a Southern Asiatic species of domestic cattle.

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 GAYAL performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GAYAL 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 68.7% of games, misses completely in 31.3%, and leaves about 304 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,086 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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___L G in the 1st position and L in the 5th position G__A_ G in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _A__L A in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

Try next

TRONE CRATE SLICE SIRED TRICE SLATE
Words starting with G Words ending with L

First-turn measures

4.10 Entropy (bits)
304 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 28% of evaluated openers
1.84 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GAYAL 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#10,086 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GAYAL ranks #10,086 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
742
4 guesses
1,282
5 guesses
256
6 guesses
19
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
69%
Green tile
28%
All gray
31%

Feedback distribution

81 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

737
237
192
171
123
90
84
63
57
57
55
41
36
33
26
21
19
19
18
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9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GAYAL:

31% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
10% chance
Suggested:
CRATE
8% chance
Suggested:
SLICE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.3% →
TRONE 6.21 bits
10.1% →
CRATE 5.51 bits
8.1% →
SLICE 5.24 bits
7.3% →
SIRED 4.70 bits
5.2% →
TRICE 4.97 bits
3.8% →
SLATE 4.62 bits
3.6% →
NOIRE 5.00 bits
2.7% →
SOWER 4.21 bits
2.4% →
TREAD 4.32 bits
2.4% →
TRINE 3.35 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2A1Y4A1L1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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