5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

GIMME

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɡɪmiː/

Contraction

Give me.

“Gimme the ball.”

Noun

That which is easy to perform or obtain, especially in sports.

Noun

That which is certain; that which is sure to be the case.

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 GIMME performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GIMME 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 73.3% of games, misses completely in 26.7%, and leaves about 301 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,329 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 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___E G in the 1st position and E in the 5th position G__M_ G in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _I__E I in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

ROAST ALTER SLART SALTY SAURY SLANT
Words starting with G Words ending with E

First-turn measures

3.93 Entropy (bits)
301 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 19% of evaluated openers
2.02 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GIMME 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.

3.82 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#12,329 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GIMME ranks #12,329 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
48
3 guesses
701
4 guesses
1,251
5 guesses
324
6 guesses
25
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
2 vowels
Common:
EI

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
33%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

75 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

629
422
229
226
87
70
65
56
46
45
41
37
36
28
27
21
20
19
19
18
17
16
16
16
11
10
9
9
8
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GIMME:

27% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
18% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
10% chance
Suggested:
ROAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.7% →
ROAST 6.00 bits
17.9% →
ALTER 5.31 bits
9.7% →
ROAST 5.28 bits
9.6% →
SLART 5.42 bits
3.7% →
SALTY 4.33 bits
3.0% →
SAURY 5.03 bits
2.8% →
SLANT 4.10 bits
2.4% →
TRIED 4.48 bits
2.0% →
SAUNT 4.56 bits
1.9% →
SOULY 4.60 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2I1M3M3E1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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