5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

GILLS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɡɪlz/

Noun

plural of gill

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of gill

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 GILLS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GILLS 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 70.3% of games, misses completely in 29.7%, and leaves about 308 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,774 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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__L_ G in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ROATE STARE TRACE CONTE STIPE ROUGE
Words starting with G Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.00 Entropy (bits)
308 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 22% of evaluated openers
1.95 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GILLS 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#8,774 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GILLS ranks #8,774 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
38
3 guesses
823
4 guesses
1,225
5 guesses
251
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ILS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
24%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

75 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

701
331
209
208
94
80
79
55
53
50
50
37
26
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20
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9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GILLS:

30% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
14% chance
Suggested:
STARE
9% chance
Suggested:
TRACE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.7% →
ROATE 6.17 bits
14.0% →
STARE 5.71 bits
8.9% →
TRACE 5.56 bits
8.8% →
ROATE 5.31 bits
4.0% →
CONTE 4.57 bits
3.4% →
STIPE 4.48 bits
3.4% →
ROUGE 4.93 bits
2.3% →
ROATE 4.77 bits
2.2% →
CARTE 4.53 bits
2.1% →
SPATE 4.66 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2I1L1L1S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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