5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

GLADS

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

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

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of glad

Noun

plural of glad

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 GLADS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GLADS 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 181 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,218 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__D_ G in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _L__S L in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

CONTE ROUET CARET HELLO DINER RONTE
Words starting with G Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.67 Entropy (bits)
181 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.3% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GLADS 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
0.67 Volatility
#2,218 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GLADS ranks #2,218 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
63
3 guesses
940
4 guesses
1,177
5 guesses
163
6 guesses
9

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ALS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
26%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

93 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

476
258
223
143
111
103
81
74
72
64
57
44
42
36
36
30
29
29
28
25
23
22
21
20
17
17
17
17
14
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GLADS:

20% chance
Suggested:
CONTE
11% chance
Suggested:
ROUET
9% chance
Suggested:
CARET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.2% →
CONTE 6.10 bits
10.9% →
ROUET 5.56 bits
9.5% →
CARET 5.48 bits
6.1% →
HELLO 4.93 bits
4.7% →
DINER 5.32 bits
4.4% →
RONTE 4.52 bits
3.4% →
TRICE 5.25 bits
3.1% →
PARTE 4.84 bits
3.1% →
CRUET 4.23 bits
2.7% →
NOIRE 4.93 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2L1A1D2S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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