GLOAT
Yes, GLOAT was the Wordle answer on June 21, 2022 (Wordle #367).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ɡloʊt//ɡləʊt/
- Verb
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To exhibit a conspicuous (sometimes malevolent) pleasure or sense of self-satisfaction, often at an adversary's misfortune.
“You did well to win the game, but there's no need to gloat about it.”
- Verb
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To triumph, crow, relish, glory, revel.
- Noun
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An act or instance of gloating.
Alternative forms: glote, glout
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English *gloten, glouten, from Old Norse glotta (“to grin, smile scornfully”) or Old English *glotian, both from Proto-Germanic *glutōną (“to stare”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- (“to shine”), related to dialectal Swedish glotta, glutta (“to peep”), Middle High German glutzen, glotzen (“to stare”), Modern German glotzen (“to gawk, goggle”).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it GLOHT.
Rhymes with WROTE QUOTE FLOAT HAUTE BLOAT
Related meanings
Synonyms triumph crow glee
In a sentence
I'm trying not to gloat too much.
It's a bit too early to gloat.
Use GLOAT in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 94.6% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: June 21, 2022 (#367).
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GLOAT is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 84.9% of games, misses completely in 15.1%, and leaves about 128 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #447 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe GLOAT 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How GLOAT 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches GLOAT in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
GLOAT can come back 116 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for GLOAT; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing GLOAT
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to GLOAT.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing GLOAT:
Research on GLOAT
Game-tree analysis and word research for GLOAT, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with GLOAT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.64 guesses and ranks #1,457 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.74 guesses at best and is rank #251 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.58, at or below the proven-optimal 3.64, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- GLOAT sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 10, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 35 of 100. Raters found it difficult to picture.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (3.4 of 5).
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); Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).