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

GENII

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈdʒi(ː)niaɪ/

Noun

plural of genius

Noun

plural of genie

Alternative forms: genies

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 GENII performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GENII 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 75.3% of games, misses completely in 24.7%, and leaves about 273 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,385 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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___I G in the 1st position and I in the 5th position G__I_ G in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _E__I E in the 2nd position and I in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe GENII 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.

4.08 Entropy (bits)
273 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 27% of evaluated openers
1.87 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GENII 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
99.79% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#11,385 Rank among openers
Opening with GENII left 5 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.79 average. It ranks #11,385 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
737
4 guesses
1,259
5 guesses
294
6 guesses
19
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
3 vowels
Common:
EIN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
26%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

GENII can come back 71 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

586 answers
441 answers
169 answers
155 answers
125 answers
119 answers
90 answers
78 answers
47 answers
44 answers
40 answers
36 answers
36 answers
33 answers
27 answers
23 answers
21 answers
21 answers
21 answers
19 answers
18 answers
16 answers
15 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2E1N1I1I1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

ROAST SPILT SLART TRIED SOREE SAUCY

Strategy after playing GENII

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GENII:

25% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
19% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
7% chance
Suggested:
SPILT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.7% →
ROAST 6.00 bits
18.6% →
ROAST 5.55 bits
7.1% →
SPILT 4.95 bits
6.5% →
SLART 4.98 bits
5.3% →
ROAST 5.15 bits
5.0% →
TRIED 4.58 bits
3.8% →
SOREE 4.50 bits
3.3% →
SLART 4.89 bits
2.0% →
SAUCY 4.17 bits
1.9% →
ROAST 4.26 bits

Research on GENII

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

Optimal play

Opening with GENII, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.83 guesses and ranks #11,903 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.00 guesses at best and is rank #6,265 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.79, 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 JEHNEE. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, GENII is a kind of intellectual or intelligence.

Synonyms star BRAIN wonder champion ace wizard

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
GENII sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

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).