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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

GIRTH

Yes, GIRTH was the Wordle answer on June 9, 2022 (Wordle #355).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɡɜːθ//ɡɝθ/[ɡɚθ]

Noun

A band passed under the belly of an animal, which holds a saddle or a harness saddle in place.

Noun

The part of an animal around which the girth fits.

Verb

To bind as if with a girth or band.

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

Used once

Past Wordle answer: June 9, 2022 (#355).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How GIRTH performs as a guess

GIRTH is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 79.7% of games, misses completely in 20.3%, and leaves about 181 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,468 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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___H G in the 1st position and H in the 5th position G__T_ G in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _I__H I in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Try next

SLANE CEDAR SALET TREAT SCALE CANOE
Words starting with G Words ending with H

First-turn measures

4.73 Entropy (bits)
181 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 67% of evaluated openers
1.22 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GIRTH 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#2,468 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GIRTH ranks #2,468 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
56
3 guesses
954
4 guesses
1,160
5 guesses
173
6 guesses
10
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:
IRT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
28%
All gray
20%

Example solver route

R O A T E
B E I G Y
G I R T H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GIRTH in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

102 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

479
288
180
151
99
88
79
75
72
69
62
55
44
41
34
31
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GIRTH:

20% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
12% chance
Suggested:
CEDAR
8% chance
Suggested:
SALET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.3% →
SLANE 6.20 bits
12.2% →
CEDAR 5.10 bits
7.6% →
SALET 5.65 bits
6.4% →
SLANE 5.44 bits
4.2% →
TREAT 4.62 bits
3.7% →
SCALE 5.25 bits
3.4% →
CANOE 4.74 bits
3.2% →
PRIED 4.49 bits
3.1% →
SONLY 4.40 bits
2.9% →
ANISE 4.49 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2I1R1T1H4
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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