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

GIMEL

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɡɪ.məl/

Noun

The third letter of the several Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac).

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 GIMEL performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GIMEL 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 82.0% of games, misses completely in 18.0%, and leaves about 170 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,347 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.
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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

G___L G in the 1st position and L in the 5th position G__E_ G in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _I__L I in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in GIMEL.

First-turn measures

All four describe GIMEL 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.

4.82 Entropy (bits)
170 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 73% of evaluated openers
1.12 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GIMEL 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
100% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#3,347 Rank among openers
Opening with GIMEL solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.64 average. It ranks #3,347 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
70
3 guesses
931
4 guesses
1,136
5 guesses
204
6 guesses
13
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EIL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
31%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

GIMEL can come back 108 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

427 answers
321 answers
160 answers
157 answers
149 answers
110 answers
78 answers
74 answers
67 answers
47 answers
42 answers
38 answers
35 answers
32 answers
32 answers
29 answers
29 answers
27 answers
27 answers
24 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
20 answers
18 answers
18 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2I1M3E1L1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

ROAST CRATE COAST SAINT STALE TRINE

Strategy after playing GIMEL

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GIMEL:

18% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
14% chance
Suggested:
CRATE
7% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.0% →
ROAST 6.10 bits
13.5% →
CRATE 5.78 bits
6.7% →
COAST 5.15 bits
6.6% →
SAINT 5.46 bits
6.3% →
ROAST 4.64 bits
4.6% →
STALE 4.79 bits
3.3% →
TRINE 4.50 bits
3.1% →
MACRO 5.03 bits
2.8% →
COAST 4.13 bits
2.0% →
SONAR 4.22 bits

Research on GIMEL

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

Optimal play

Opening with GIMEL, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #2,528 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.79 guesses at best and is rank #1,072 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it GIHMUHL. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, GIMEL is a kind of letter.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
GIMEL sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).