5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

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 169 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 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.

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

Try next

ROAST CRATE COAST SAINT STALE TRINE
Words starting with G Words ending with L

First-turn measures

4.82 Entropy (bits)
169 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 72% of evaluated openers
1.13 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 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
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#3,347 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GIMEL 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 (3.45 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

108 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

424
321
158
156
146
110
78
74
66
47
42
38
35
32
32
29
28
27
27
24
21
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20
18
18
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15
14
14

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 6.09 bits
13.6% →
CRATE 5.78 bits
6.7% →
COAST 5.15 bits
6.6% →
SAINT 5.45 bits
6.2% →
ROAST 4.60 bits
4.7% →
STALE 4.79 bits
3.3% →
TRINE 4.50 bits
3.1% →
MACRO 5.03 bits
2.8% →
COAST 4.16 bits
2.0% →
SONAR 4.22 bits

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.