5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

GINZO

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

As an opener, it rules out about 84.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A person of Italian birth or descent.

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 GINZO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GINZO 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 67.3% of games, misses completely in 32.7%, and leaves about 358 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,971 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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___O G in the 1st position and O in the 5th position G__Z_ G in the 1st position and Z in the 4th position _I__O I in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

Try next

REAST CRATE TRACE TASER SATED SARED
Words starting with G Words ending with O

First-turn measures

3.78 Entropy (bits)
358 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
84.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 14% of evaluated openers
2.17 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GINZO 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#10,971 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GINZO ranks #10,971 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
741
4 guesses
1,270
5 guesses
283
6 guesses
15
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:
INO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
67%
Green tile
20%
All gray
33%

Feedback distribution

72 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

770
364
244
134
106
96
75
53
51
43
36
27
26
26
25
21
21
20
20
14
14
11
10
9
8
8
7
7
6
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GINZO:

33% chance
Suggested:
REAST
15% chance
Suggested:
CRATE
10% chance
Suggested:
TRACE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.7% →
REAST 6.33 bits
15.4% →
CRATE 5.33 bits
10.3% →
TRACE 5.51 bits
5.7% →
TASER 5.21 bits
4.5% →
SATED 4.51 bits
4.1% →
SARED 4.55 bits
3.2% →
SALET 4.78 bits
2.2% →
CARLE 4.38 bits
2.2% →
LARGE 4.91 bits
1.8% →
SLATE 4.55 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2I1N1Z10O1
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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