5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier for first-turn info

GIPSY

GIPSY is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 88.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Dated spelling of gypsy.

Verb

Dated spelling of gypsy.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

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.

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___Y G in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position G__S_ G in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _I__Y I in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

First-turn measures

All four describe GIPSY 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.

4.24 Entropy (bits)
277 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
88.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 35% of evaluated openers
1.71 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GIPSY 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.67 Spread of game lengths
#5,789 Rank among openers
Opening with GIPSY solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.67 means those games clustered within about 0.67 of a guess of the 3.68 average. It ranks #5,789 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
867
4 guesses
1,235
5 guesses
192
6 guesses
12
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
1 vowels
Common:
IS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
34%
All gray
29%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
F I S H Y
G I P S Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GIPSY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

GIPSY can come back 88 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

695 answers
227 answers
207 answers
169 answers
98 answers
92 answers
82 answers
82 answers
63 answers
63 answers
57 answers
45 answers
33 answers
29 answers
27 answers
27 answers
27 answers
23 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2I1P3S1Y4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

ROATE CRANE CARET DROLE REACT RONTE

Strategy after playing GIPSY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GIPSY:

29% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
10% chance
Suggested:
CRANE
9% chance
Suggested:
CARET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.3% →
ROATE 6.13 bits
9.6% →
CRANE 5.49 bits
8.7% →
CARET 5.44 bits
7.1% →
DROLE 4.88 bits
4.1% →
REACT 5.08 bits
3.9% →
CRANE 5.36 bits
3.5% →
RONTE 4.61 bits
3.5% →
LARGE 5.20 bits
2.7% →
LATER 4.58 bits
2.7% →
LEANT 4.54 bits