5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

GESTS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɛsts/

Noun

plural of gest

Noun

Alternative form of gists (“a roll reciting the several stages arranged for a royal progress”).

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 GESTS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GESTS 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 77.4% of games, misses completely in 22.6%, and leaves about 234 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,301 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.

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__T_ G in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

CAROL ARIEL TAROT CLARY SPARE CARLE
Words starting with G Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.17 Entropy (bits)
234 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 31% of evaluated openers
1.78 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GESTS 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
99.9% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#11,301 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GESTS ranks #11,301 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
43
3 guesses
695
4 guesses
1,344
5 guesses
247
6 guesses
22
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
1 vowels
Common:
EST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
24%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

69 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

533
366
179
157
131
128
115
96
68
58
49
45
39
39
39
28
22
21
19
19
13
12
12
12
11
10
10
10
9
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GESTS:

23% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
16% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
8% chance
Suggested:
TAROT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.6% →
CAROL 6.02 bits
15.5% →
ARIEL 5.16 bits
7.6% →
TAROT 5.18 bits
6.7% →
CLARY 5.01 bits
5.6% →
SPARE 4.70 bits
5.4% →
CARLE 4.65 bits
4.9% →
TALER 4.73 bits
4.1% →
ROAST 4.50 bits
2.9% →
ROANY 4.99 bits
2.5% →
ROANY 4.39 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2E1S1T1S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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