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

GELLY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Clipping of gelignite.

Noun

Obsolete spelling of jelly.

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 GELLY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GELLY 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 75.7% of games, misses completely in 24.3%, and leaves about 294 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,684 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 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.
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Useful pattern pages

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

G___Y G in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position G__L_ G in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _E__Y E in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe GELLY 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.

4.02 Entropy (bits)
294 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 23% of evaluated openers
1.93 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GELLY 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#12,684 Rank among openers
Opening with GELLY left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.83 average. It ranks #12,684 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
689
4 guesses
1,247
5 guesses
335
6 guesses
29
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
1 vowels
Common:
EL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
35%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

GELLY can come back 80 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

578 answers
500 answers
191 answers
176 answers
118 answers
116 answers
66 answers
43 answers
35 answers
35 answers
34 answers
33 answers
32 answers
28 answers
27 answers
24 answers
24 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2E1L1L1Y4
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

COAST STAIR ROAST AINEE SONAR RANGE

Strategy after playing GELLY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GELLY:

24% chance
Suggested:
COAST
21% chance
Suggested:
STAIR
8% chance
Suggested:
ROAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.3% →
COAST 6.04 bits
21.1% →
STAIR 5.53 bits
8.0% →
ROAST 4.78 bits
7.4% →
COAST 4.98 bits
5.0% →
ROAST 4.99 bits
4.9% →
AINEE 4.40 bits
2.8% →
SONAR 4.80 bits
1.8% →
RANGE 4.23 bits
1.5% →
SAINT 4.11 bits
1.5% →
TRADE 3.90 bits

Research on GELLY

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

Optimal play

Opening with GELLY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.83 guesses and ranks #11,962 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 GELLY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.83, at or below the proven-optimal 3.83, 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 GEHLEE. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, GELLY is a kind of dynamite.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
GELLY 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 relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).