5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

GIRDS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of gird

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of gird

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 GIRDS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GIRDS 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 79.8% of games, misses completely in 20.2%, and leaves about 195 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,169 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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___S G in the 1st position and S in the 5th position G__D_ G in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

OLATE STALE COATE CLINE POTAE DEALT
Words starting with G Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.54 Entropy (bits)
195 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 55% of evaluated openers
1.41 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GIRDS 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#4,169 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GIRDS ranks #4,169 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
922
4 guesses
1,176
5 guesses
191
6 guesses
12
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
IRS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
24%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

88 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

477
280
277
142
88
84
84
74
74
73
64
57
35
34
34
31
29
28
24
23
21
19
18
17
17
17
16
16
10
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GIRDS:

20% chance
Suggested:
OLATE
12% chance
Suggested:
STALE
12% chance
Suggested:
COATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.2% →
OLATE 6.03 bits
11.9% →
STALE 5.75 bits
11.7% →
COATE 5.44 bits
6.0% →
CLINE 5.25 bits
3.7% →
POTAE 4.76 bits
3.6% →
DEALT 5.05 bits
3.6% →
SPATE 5.00 bits
3.1% →
STILE 4.47 bits
3.1% →
CRATE 4.62 bits
3.1% →
PALET 4.38 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2I1R1D2S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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