5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

GILAS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of Gila

Noun

Nickname for national basketball representative teams of the Philippines.

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 GILAS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GILAS 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 83.5% of games, misses completely in 16.5%, and leaves about 150 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,169 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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__A_ G in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TONER CARTE TRUCE ROUET PEART ALATE
Words starting with G Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.86 Entropy (bits)
150 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 76% of evaluated openers
1.09 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GILAS 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#3,169 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GILAS ranks #3,169 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
61
3 guesses
949
4 guesses
1,131
5 guesses
198
6 guesses
13
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:
AILS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
25%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

102 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

389
268
190
144
130
117
99
84
65
61
47
46
44
41
41
33
32
29
27
25
24
24
23
22
21
20
19
16
15
15

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GILAS:

16% chance
Suggested:
TONER
11% chance
Suggested:
CARTE
8% chance
Suggested:
TONER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.5% →
TONER 6.04 bits
11.4% →
CARTE 5.56 bits
8.1% →
TONER 5.50 bits
6.1% →
TRUCE 5.54 bits
5.5% →
ROUET 5.10 bits
5.0% →
PEART 4.84 bits
4.2% →
ALATE 4.48 bits
3.6% →
CONTE 4.53 bits
2.8% →
TRINE 4.44 bits
2.6% →
NADIR 4.62 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2I1L1A1S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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