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

GETAS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of geta

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use GETAS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 95.2% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How GETAS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GETAS 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 88.0% of games, misses completely in 12.0%, and leaves about 115 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,846 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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 GETAS 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.

5.13 Entropy (bits)
115 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.2% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GETAS 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.67 Spread of game lengths
#2,846 Rank among openers
Opening with GETAS left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.67 means those games clustered within about 0.67 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It ranks #2,846 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
72
3 guesses
893
4 guesses
1,220
5 guesses
156
6 guesses
11

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AEST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
26%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

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

286 answers
244 answers
202 answers
115 answers
107 answers
103 answers
99 answers
84 answers
74 answers
74 answers
73 answers
69 answers
51 answers
43 answers
41 answers
37 answers
35 answers
29 answers
28 answers
28 answers
27 answers
26 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
22 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2E1T1A1S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing GETAS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GETAS:

12% chance
Suggested:
COULD
10% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
8% chance
Suggested:
CAROL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.0% →
COULD 5.61 bits
10.2% →
DROLE 5.22 bits
8.5% →
CAROL 5.13 bits
4.8% →
SPOIL 4.68 bits
4.5% →
MARLE 4.58 bits
4.3% →
TROUT 5.03 bits
4.2% →
SPIRE 4.75 bits
3.5% →
LEERY 4.06 bits
3.1% →
SCALP 4.45 bits
3.1% →
TRICE 4.74 bits

Research on GETAS

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

Optimal play

Opening with GETAS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #3,073 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with GETAS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).