5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

GIRNS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of girn

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 GIRNS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GIRNS 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 82.2% of games, misses completely in 17.8%, and leaves about 170 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,096 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__N_ G in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

OLATE COATE STALE CANOE CLADE POTAE
Words starting with G Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.78 Entropy (bits)
170 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 70% of evaluated openers
1.17 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GIRNS 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
99.9% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#2,096 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GIRNS ranks #2,096 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
977
4 guesses
1,126
5 guesses
180
6 guesses
11
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:
INRS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
28%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

100 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

419
298
248
121
121
82
79
73
71
61
50
46
43
34
34
34
33
28
24
23
23
19
17
17
16
16
15
15
13
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GIRNS:

18% chance
Suggested:
OLATE
13% chance
Suggested:
COATE
11% chance
Suggested:
STALE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.8% →
OLATE 6.07 bits
12.6% →
COATE 5.44 bits
10.5% →
STALE 5.84 bits
5.1% →
CANOE 5.21 bits
5.1% →
CLADE 5.28 bits
3.5% →
POTAE 4.72 bits
3.4% →
CADET 4.72 bits
3.1% →
SPATE 4.97 bits
3.0% →
CLOTE 4.31 bits
2.6% →
STILE 4.56 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2I1R1N1S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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