5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

GENES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /d͡ʒiːnz/

Noun

plural of gene

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 GENES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GENES 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 75.8% of games, misses completely in 24.2%, and leaves about 221 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,050 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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.

Useful pattern pages

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

G___S G in the 1st position and S in the 5th position G__E_ G in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

CAROL SLART TIARE TRAIN TOILE CLARY
Words starting with G Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.45 Entropy (bits)
221 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 49% of evaluated openers
1.50 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GENES 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#9,050 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GENES ranks #9,050 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
777
4 guesses
1,265
5 guesses
244
6 guesses
14
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ENS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
33%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

84 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

570
257
208
136
134
125
108
64
53
52
42
41
35
34
30
27
25
25
24
22
20
19
19
17
16
14
14
14
12
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GENES:

24% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
11% chance
Suggested:
SLART
9% chance
Suggested:
TIARE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.2% →
CAROL 6.00 bits
10.9% →
SLART 5.29 bits
8.8% →
TIARE 5.32 bits
5.8% →
TRAIN 5.26 bits
5.7% →
TOILE 3.94 bits
5.3% →
SLART 4.80 bits
4.6% →
CLARY 5.08 bits
2.7% →
SAUCY 4.08 bits
2.2% →
STAIN 4.13 bits
2.2% →
ANILE 4.56 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2E1N1E1S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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