5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

GIRLS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɡɝlz//ɡɜːlz/

Noun

plural of girl

Noun

A woman's breasts.

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of girl

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 GIRLS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GIRLS 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 86.0% of games, misses completely in 14.0%, and leaves about 146 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,813 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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__L_ G in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

COATE STANE CONTE CADET POTAE SPATE
Words starting with G Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.84 Entropy (bits)
146 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 74% of evaluated openers
1.11 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GIRLS 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#1,813 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GIRLS ranks #1,813 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
990
4 guesses
1,118
5 guesses
176
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:
ILRS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
27%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

98 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

329
290
216
194
119
85
82
81
67
64
62
60
53
53
47
34
32
29
25
23
22
21
17
17
16
16
16
15
14
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GIRLS:

14% chance
Suggested:
COATE
12% chance
Suggested:
COATE
9% chance
Suggested:
STANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.0% →
COATE 6.05 bits
12.3% →
COATE 5.48 bits
9.2% →
STANE 5.60 bits
8.2% →
COATE 5.46 bits
5.0% →
CONTE 5.30 bits
3.6% →
CADET 4.76 bits
3.5% →
POTAE 4.73 bits
3.4% →
SPATE 4.92 bits
2.8% →
ATONE 4.52 bits
2.7% →
CONTE 4.40 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2I1R1L1S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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