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

GEMOT

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.2% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɡɪˈməʊt//ɡɪˈmoʊt/

Noun

A (legislative or judicial) assembly in Anglo-Saxon England.

Noun

Any assembly.

Alternative forms: gemote, gemoot

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 GEMOT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GEMOT 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 83.7% of games, misses completely in 16.3%, and leaves about 162 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,529 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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 GEMOT 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.

4.77 Entropy (bits)
162 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 70% of evaluated openers
1.17 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GEMOT 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#5,529 Rank among openers
Opening with GEMOT 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 3.68 average. It ranks #5,529 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
66
3 guesses
851
4 guesses
1,222
5 guesses
200
6 guesses
13
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
31%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

GEMOT can come back 100 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

388 answers
334 answers
168 answers
132 answers
122 answers
117 answers
104 answers
77 answers
71 answers
66 answers
57 answers
57 answers
44 answers
42 answers
40 answers
39 answers
33 answers
30 answers
27 answers
24 answers
23 answers
23 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
17 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2E1M3O1T1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing GEMOT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GEMOT:

16% chance
Suggested:
SNAIL
14% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
7% chance
Suggested:
CLARY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.3%
SNAIL 5.91 bits
14.1%
RAISE 5.38 bits
7.1%
CLARY 5.08 bits
5.6%
SITAR 5.00 bits
5.1%
LEARE 4.53 bits
4.9%
SONAR 4.46 bits
4.4%
TARTE 4.81 bits
3.2%
SAURY 4.76 bits
3.0%
CLARY 4.92 bits
2.8%
SANER 4.39 bits

Research on GEMOT

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

Optimal play

Opening with GEMOT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #4,453 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.80 guesses at best and is rank #1,302 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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 JEHMUHT. 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.