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

GLEES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɡliːz/

Noun

plural of glee

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 GLEES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GLEES 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 77.9% of games, misses completely in 22.1%, and leaves about 203 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,495 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

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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__E_ G in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _L__S L in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe GLEES 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.

4.55 Entropy (bits)
203 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 55% of evaluated openers
1.40 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GLEES 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#8,495 Rank among openers
Opening with GLEES solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.73 average. It ranks #8,495 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
810
4 guesses
1,221
5 guesses
260
6 guesses
10
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ELS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
31%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

GLEES can come back 88 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

524 answers
242 answers
238 answers
172 answers
133 answers
106 answers
79 answers
79 answers
72 answers
54 answers
42 answers
40 answers
38 answers
38 answers
29 answers
25 answers
23 answers
23 answers
23 answers
21 answers
20 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2L1E1E1S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

TRAIN STAIR TIARE LOYAL ROANY REACT

Strategy after playing GLEES

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GLEES:

22% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
10% chance
Suggested:
STAIR
10% chance
Suggested:
TIARE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.1% →
TRAIN 6.01 bits
10.2% →
STAIR 5.23 bits
10.0% →
TIARE 5.39 bits
7.2% →
LOYAL 4.93 bits
5.6% →
ROANY 4.22 bits
4.5% →
STAIR 4.60 bits
3.3% →
REACT 4.42 bits
3.3% →
COAST 3.94 bits
3.0% →
ROANY 5.02 bits
2.3% →
STALL 4.42 bits

Research on GLEES

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

Optimal play

Opening with GLEES, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,646 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.88 guesses at best and is rank #3,729 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.73, 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it GLEEZ. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, GLEES is a kind of happiness or satisfaction.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
GLEES sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).