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Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

GLEDE

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɡliːd/

Noun

Any of several birds of prey, especially a kite, Milvus milvus.

Noun

A live coal; an ember.

Alternative forms: gled, glead, gleed

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

From Middle English gleede, glede, from Old English glēd, glēde (“glowing coal, ember, fire, flame, instrument of torture”), from Proto-West Germanic *glōdi, from Proto-Germanic *glōdiz (“incandescence, glowing ember, burning ash”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“to shine”). Cognate with Scots gleed (“burning coal, ember”), Saterland Frisian Gloud (“blaze, fire”), Dutch gloed (“glowing heat”), German Glut (“glowing heat, embers”), Swedish glöd (“embers”), Scots glude (“glow from a fire”).

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use GLEDE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 89.2% of possible answers.

Open Solver with GLEDE Open Word Finder

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How GLEDE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GLEDE 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 72.3% of games, misses completely in 27.7%, and leaves about 257 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,044 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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.

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Useful pattern pages

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

G___E G in the 1st position and E in the 5th position G__D_ G in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _L__E L in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position GL_DE G in the 1st position, L in the 2nd position, D in the 4th position, and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe GLEDE 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.

4.38 Entropy (bits)
257 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.2% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GLEDE 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#8,044 Rank among openers
Opening with GLEDE left 3 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 3.72 average. It ranks #8,044 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
799
4 guesses
1,257
5 guesses
226
6 guesses
14

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
35%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

GLEDE can come back 91 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

660 answers
227 answers
196 answers
190 answers
103 answers
96 answers
85 answers
75 answers
62 answers
53 answers
41 answers
40 answers
33 answers
33 answers
29 answers
28 answers
26 answers
21 answers
21 answers
19 answers
17 answers
16 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2L1E1D2E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

COAST ROAST SOLAR TRIAD LATER ROANY

Strategy after playing GLEDE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GLEDE:

28% chance
Suggested:
COAST
10% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
8% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.7% →
COAST 6.00 bits
9.5% →
ROAST 5.19 bits
8.2% →
SOLAR 4.98 bits
8.0% →
ROAST 5.22 bits
4.3% →
TRIAD 5.11 bits
4.0% →
COAST 4.63 bits
3.6% →
LATER 4.41 bits
3.1% →
ROANY 4.88 bits
2.6% →
DINER 4.59 bits
2.2% →
SHART 4.99 bits

Research on GLEDE

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

Optimal play

Opening with GLEDE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,604 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 GLEDE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.72, at or below the proven-optimal 3.74, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).