5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

GLENT

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Archaic form of glint.

Verb

Archaic form of glint.

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 GLENT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GLENT 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 85.7% of games, misses completely in 14.3%, and leaves about 134 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,779 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___T G in the 1st position and T in the 5th position G__N_ G in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _L__T L in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

CAROM SARED LOYAL SITAR TARTE CAIRN
Words starting with G Words ending with T

First-turn measures

5.04 Entropy (bits)
134 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 85% of evaluated openers
0.91 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GLENT 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
0.68 Volatility
#1,779 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GLENT ranks #1,779 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
72
3 guesses
940
4 guesses
1,176
5 guesses
149
6 guesses
15
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:
ELNT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
32%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

107 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

337
283
160
153
116
107
106
92
79
66
57
45
36
34
34
29
29
25
25
23
22
22
22
22
20
19
19
16
15
15

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GLENT:

14% chance
Suggested:
CAROM
12% chance
Suggested:
SARED
7% chance
Suggested:
LOYAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.3% →
CAROM 5.93 bits
12.0% →
SARED 5.07 bits
6.8% →
LOYAL 4.93 bits
6.5% →
SITAR 4.91 bits
4.9% →
TARTE 4.97 bits
4.5% →
CAIRN 5.19 bits
4.5% →
SEARE 4.65 bits
3.9% →
AINEE 4.51 bits
3.4% →
ARISE 4.85 bits
2.8% →
COAST 4.13 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2L1E1N1T1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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