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GELEE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Any gelled suspension made for culinary purposes.

Noun

Alternative form of gele (“type of women’s headwrap”).

Alternative forms: gelée

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 GELEE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GELEE 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 66.9% of games, misses completely in 33.1%, and leaves about 342 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,997 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.84 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.
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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__E_ G in the 1st position and E 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 GELEE.

First-turn measures

All four describe GELEE 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.

3.89 Entropy (bits)
342 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 18% of evaluated openers
2.06 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GELEE 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.

3.84 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#12,997 Rank among openers
Opening with GELEE left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.84 average. It ranks #12,997 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
688
4 guesses
1,249
5 guesses
351
6 guesses
23
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:
EL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
67%
Green tile
45%
All gray
33%

Feedback distribution

GELEE can come back 67 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

786 answers
270 answers
217 answers
162 answers
106 answers
91 answers
85 answers
65 answers
62 answers
48 answers
45 answers
41 answers
33 answers
31 answers
29 answers
23 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
7 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2E1L1E1E1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

ROAST COAST SONAR SHART ROANY SOILY

Strategy after playing GELEE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GELEE:

33% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
11% chance
Suggested:
COAST
9% chance
Suggested:
ROAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

33.1% →
ROAST 5.98 bits
11.4% →
COAST 5.12 bits
9.1% →
ROAST 5.18 bits
6.8% →
SONAR 4.64 bits
4.5% →
SHART 4.79 bits
3.8% →
SHART 5.22 bits
3.6% →
ROANY 4.97 bits
2.7% →
SOILY 4.51 bits
2.6% →
SLANT 4.24 bits
2.0% →
SAUNT 4.52 bits

Research on GELEE

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

Optimal play

Opening with GELEE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.86 guesses and ranks #12,880 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 GELEE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.84, at or below the proven-optimal 3.86, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it JEHLEE. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
GELEE sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).