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GLOAT

Yes, GLOAT was the Wordle answer on June 21, 2022 (Wordle #367).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɡloʊt//ɡləʊt/

Verb

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

To triumph, crow, relish, glory, revel.

Noun

An act or instance of gloating.

Alternative forms: glote, glout

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: June 21, 2022 (#367).

See the full page for that puzzle: June 21, 2022 (#367).

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

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How GLOAT performs as a guess

GLOAT 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 85.0% of games, misses completely in 15.0%, and leaves about 127 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

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__A_ G in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _L__T L in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

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

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.

5.14 Entropy (bits)
127 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 90% of evaluated openers
0.81 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

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.

3.58 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#447 Rank among openers
Opening with GLOAT left 1 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 3.58 average. It ranks #447 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
71
3 guesses
1,031
4 guesses
1,072
5 guesses
166
6 guesses
12
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
2 vowels
Common:
ALOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
35%
All gray
15%

Example solver route

R O A T E
B L O A T
F L O A T
G L O A T

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:

355 answers
249 answers
143 answers
130 answers
123 answers
103 answers
99 answers
88 answers
70 answers
58 answers
54 answers
52 answers
52 answers
47 answers
44 answers
44 answers
43 answers
32 answers
30 answers
26 answers
26 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2L1O1A1T1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

SIREN SACRE MORNE SHIRE SILER TARTE

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:

15% chance
Suggested:
SIREN
10% chance
Suggested:
SACRE
6% chance
Suggested:
MORNE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.0% →
SIREN 6.00 bits
10.5% →
SACRE 5.42 bits
6.0% →
MORNE 5.17 bits
5.5% →
SHIRE 5.41 bits
5.2% →
SILER 4.85 bits
4.3% →
TARTE 4.93 bits
4.2% →
CRINE 4.80 bits
3.7% →
SALLE 4.88 bits
2.9% →
SIREN 5.20 bits
2.4% →
SPICE 4.83 bits

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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it GLOHT.

Rhymes with WROTE QUOTE FLOAT HAUTE BLOAT

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, GLOAT is a kind of satisfaction or gas.

Synonyms triumph crow glee

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).

In a sentence

I'm trying not to gloat too much.
© tatoeba.org contributor ddnktr (CC BY 2.0 FR)
It's a bit too early to gloat.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (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); Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).