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GLAND

Yes, GLAND was the Wordle answer on February 24, 2025 (Wordle #1346).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɡlænd/[ɡleənd] ~ [ɡlɛənd]/ɡland/

Noun

A specialized cell, group of cells, or organ of endothelial origin in the human or animal body that synthesizes a chemical substance, such as hormones or breast milk, and releases it, often into the bloodstream (endocrine gland) or into cavities inside the body or its outer surface (exocrine gland).

Noun

A secretory structure on the surface of an organ.

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: February 24, 2025 (#1346).

See the full page for that puzzle: February 24, 2025 (#1346).

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

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How GLAND performs as a guess

GLAND is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 77.2% of games, misses completely in 22.8%, and leaves about 194 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #958 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

G___D G in the 1st position and D in the 5th position G__N_ G in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _L__D L in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in GLAND.

First-turn measures

All four describe GLAND 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.

4.77 Entropy (bits)
194 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 70% of evaluated openers
1.18 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GLAND 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#958 Rank among openers
Opening with GLAND left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.60 average. It ranks #958 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
76
3 guesses
970
4 guesses
1,139
5 guesses
152
6 guesses
14
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ALN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
32%
All gray
23%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I C K
A G A P E
G L A N D

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GLAND in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

GLAND can come back 114 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

542 answers
231 answers
164 answers
154 answers
128 answers
104 answers
90 answers
70 answers
60 answers
55 answers
44 answers
38 answers
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31 answers
27 answers
26 answers
22 answers
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14 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2L1A1N1D2
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

TORSE CARTE SILER TOISE STORE DROIT

Strategy after playing GLAND

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to GLAND.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GLAND:

23% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
10% chance
Suggested:
CARTE
7% chance
Suggested:
SILER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.8% →
TORSE 6.36 bits
9.7% →
CARTE 5.54 bits
6.9% →
SILER 4.98 bits
6.5% →
TOISE 5.35 bits
5.4% →
STORE 5.13 bits
4.4% →
TORSE 4.61 bits
3.8% →
DROIT 5.14 bits
2.9% →
SOUCE 4.85 bits
2.5% →
TOISE 4.88 bits
2.3% →
CATER 4.40 bits

Research on GLAND

Game-tree analysis and word research for GLAND, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with GLAND, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #1,028 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 GLAND can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.60, at or below the proven-optimal 3.63, 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it GLAND.

Rhymes with STAND GRAND BRAND BLAND SHAND

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, GLAND is a kind of organ.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
GLAND 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.

In a sentence

There's a problem with her thyroid gland.
© tatoeba.org contributor shekitten (CC BY 2.0 FR)
The thyroid is an endocrine gland.
© tatoeba.org contributor shekitten (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).