5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

GERAH

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

An ancient Hebrew unit of weight and currency, one twentieth of a shekel.

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 GERAH performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GERAH 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 86.8% of games, misses completely in 13.2%, and leaves about 125 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,462 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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___H G in the 1st position and H in the 5th position G__A_ G in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _E__H E in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Try next

SOILY TOILE SLANT TOISE DROIT TRAIN
Words starting with G Words ending with H

First-turn measures

5.12 Entropy (bits)
125 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 89% of evaluated openers
0.83 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GERAH 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#4,462 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GERAH ranks #4,462 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
67
3 guesses
925
4 guesses
1,112
5 guesses
237
6 guesses
12
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
30%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

111 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

311
225
222
166
123
115
97
62
59
55
51
51
44
43
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36
30
25
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GERAH:

13% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
10% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
9% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.2% →
SOILY 5.69 bits
9.5% →
TOILE 5.39 bits
9.4% →
SLANT 5.19 bits
7.0% →
TOISE 4.42 bits
5.2% →
DROIT 4.89 bits
4.9% →
SLANT 4.71 bits
4.1% →
TRAIN 4.31 bits
2.6% →
SOLDE 4.05 bits
2.5% →
CASTE 3.69 bits
2.3% →
MOUTH 4.23 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2E1R1A1H4
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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