GIRLY
GIRLY is on the solver's possible-answer list and has no appearance in our globally completed Wordle history.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɝli//ˈɡɜːli//ˈɡøːli/
- Adjective
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Characteristic of a stereotypical girl, very effeminate, gentle; unmasculine.
- Adjective
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Of, or pertaining to, a young, attractive woman; especially one who is scantily clad.
“a girly calendar”
- Noun
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A girl.
- Adverb
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In the manner of a girl.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From girl + -ly (adverbial suffix), after the adjective.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
In a sentence
Mary is a girly girl.
Mary is not a girly girl.
Use GIRLY in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 92.4% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
No completed appearanceNo appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.
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See what the public sample says →How GIRLY performs as a guess
GIRLY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 82.7% of games, misses completely in 17.3%, and leaves about 180 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,157 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe GIRLY 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How GIRLY 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches GIRLY in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
GIRLY can come back 101 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for GIRLY; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing GIRLY
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to GIRLY.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing GIRLY:
Research on GIRLY
Game-tree analysis and word research for GIRLY, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with GIRLY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,292 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with GIRLY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.71, because the two figures score different answer lists.
These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- GIRLY sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 2 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 72 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.1 of 5).
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).