5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

GHATS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of ghat

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 GHATS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GHATS 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 78.3% of games, misses completely in 21.7%, and leaves about 190 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,842 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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 _H__S H in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

DROLE CARLE POIRE ROUET CRINE TALER
Words starting with G Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.68 Entropy (bits)
190 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 64% of evaluated openers
1.27 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GHATS 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#3,842 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GHATS ranks #3,842 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
921
4 guesses
1,193
5 guesses
177
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
1 vowels
Common:
AST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
28%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

96 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

511
272
178
152
97
93
89
76
65
61
52
46
40
38
35
29
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25
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13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GHATS:

22% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
12% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
8% chance
Suggested:
POIRE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.7% →
DROLE 6.00 bits
11.5% →
CARLE 5.37 bits
7.5% →
POIRE 5.47 bits
6.4% →
ROUET 5.52 bits
4.1% →
CRINE 4.71 bits
3.9% →
TALER 4.66 bits
3.8% →
ROUET 4.63 bits
3.2% →
ROULE 4.87 bits
2.8% →
SALEP 4.45 bits
2.6% →
PONEY 4.72 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2H4A1T1S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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