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

GEEPS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.1% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of geep

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 GEEPS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GEEPS 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 72.4% of games, misses completely in 27.6%, and leaves about 284 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,259 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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 GEEPS 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.

4.10 Entropy (bits)
284 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 27% of evaluated openers
1.85 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GEEPS 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#10,259 Rank among openers
Opening with GEEPS left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.77 average. It ranks #10,259 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
45
3 guesses
752
4 guesses
1,278
5 guesses
260
6 guesses
17
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ES

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
25%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

GEEPS can come back 76 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

656 answers
337 answers
257 answers
114 answers
113 answers
97 answers
83 answers
57 answers
53 answers
51 answers
50 answers
45 answers
35 answers
33 answers
31 answers
27 answers
25 answers
24 answers
22 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2E1E1P3S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing GEEPS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GEEPS:

28% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
14% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
11% chance
Suggested:
SAULT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.6%
CAROL 5.99 bits
14.2%
RAILE 5.24 bits
10.8%
SAULT 5.22 bits
4.8%
STAIR 4.69 bits
4.8%
CLARY 4.96 bits
4.1%
PLAIT 5.14 bits
3.5%
ROANY 4.96 bits
2.4%
SLANT 4.37 bits
2.2%
LAIRY 4.61 bits
2.1%
TREAD 4.52 bits

Research on GEEPS

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

Optimal play

Opening with GEEPS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses and ranks #10,404 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.92 guesses at best and is rank #4,612 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.77, at or below the proven-optimal 3.79, 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it GEEPS. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.