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GEESE

Yes, GEESE was the Wordle answer on September 30, 2025 (Wordle #1564).

As an opener, it rules out about 85.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɡiːs/

Noun

plural of goose

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: September 30, 2025 (#1564).

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How GEESE performs as a guess

GEESE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 67.4% of games, misses completely in 32.6%, and leaves about 337 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,898 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.89 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

G___E G in the 1st position and E in the 5th position G__S_ G in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _E__E E in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in GEESE.

First-turn measures

All four describe GEESE 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.

3.86 Entropy (bits)
337 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
85.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 17% of evaluated openers
2.09 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GEESE 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.

3.89 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#13,898 Rank among openers
Opening with GEESE left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.89 average. It ranks #13,898 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
33
3 guesses
624
4 guesses
1,286
5 guesses
375
6 guesses
33
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

3/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
ES

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
67%
Green tile
40%
All gray
33%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I N G
G E E S E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GEESE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

GEESE can come back 63 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

775 answers
260 answers
215 answers
178 answers
132 answers
89 answers
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73 answers
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8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2E1E1S1E1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Try next

CAROL STAIN RAINY TIARE CLARY ROANY

Strategy after playing GEESE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GEESE:

33% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
11% chance
Suggested:
STAIN
9% chance
Suggested:
RAINY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.6% →
CAROL 5.90 bits
11.0% →
STAIN 5.00 bits
9.1% →
RAINY 4.48 bits
7.5% →
TIARE 4.40 bits
5.6% →
CLARY 5.01 bits
3.7% →
ROANY 4.97 bits
3.6% →
SHART 4.46 bits
3.1% →
PLATE 3.95 bits
2.5% →
TREAD 4.61 bits
2.4% →
ROANY 4.56 bits

Research on GEESE

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

Optimal play

Opening with GEESE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.88 guesses and ranks #13,436 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with GEESE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.89; proven optimal play reaches 3.88. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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 GEES.

Rhymes with PIECE PEACE LEASE CEASE NIECE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, GEESE is a kind of fool or poultry.

Synonyms jackass twat cuckoo

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
GEESE sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 2 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.

In a sentence

Did you see those geese?
© tatoeba.org contributor sundown (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I saw a lot of geese.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).