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GECKO

Yes, GECKO was the Wordle answer on May 10, 2022 (Wordle #325).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɡɛk.əʊ//ˈɡɛk.oʊ/

Noun

Any lizard in the infraorder Gekkota.

Noun

Any lizard of the family Gekkonidae of small, carnivorous, mostly nocturnal animals with large eyes and adhesive toes enabling them to climb on vertical and upside-down surfaces.

Verb

To move in the manner of a gecko; to attach to a vertical or upside-down surface.

Alternative forms: chacco, geco, gekko, jackoa

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: May 10, 2022 (#325).

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

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How GECKO performs as a guess

GECKO 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 80.6% of games, misses completely in 19.4%, and leaves about 229 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,986 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___O G in the 1st position and O in the 5th position G__K_ G in the 1st position and K in the 4th position _E__O E in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIL STAIR ROOST SLART RONTE CAIRN
Words starting with G Words ending with O

First-turn measures

4.17 Entropy (bits)
229 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 31% of evaluated openers
1.77 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GECKO 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
99.9% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#9,986 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GECKO ranks #9,986 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
33
3 guesses
770
4 guesses
1,288
5 guesses
242
6 guesses
18
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:
EO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
21%
All gray
19%

Example solver route

R O A T E
D E M O N
C E L L O
G E C K O

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GECKO in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

62 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

457
409
279
159
129
122
83
62
58
50
47
41
39
33
29
27
26
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25
22
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9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GECKO:

19% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
17% chance
Suggested:
STAIR
12% chance
Suggested:
ROOST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.4% →
TRAIL 6.04 bits
17.3% →
STAIR 5.49 bits
11.8% →
ROOST 5.20 bits
6.7% →
SLART 4.98 bits
5.5% →
RONTE 4.46 bits
5.2% →
CAIRN 5.13 bits
3.5% →
TRACE 4.77 bits
2.6% →
COUNT 4.21 bits
2.5% →
SAUNT 4.61 bits
2.1% →
RAILE 4.57 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2E1C3K5O1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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