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Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

GLUGS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 83.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of glug

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 GLUGS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GLUGS 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 65.6% of games, misses completely in 34.4%, and leaves about 384 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,789 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 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___S G in the 1st position and S in the 5th position G__G_ G in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _L__S L in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ORATE TIARE RAILE RONTE CRANE SALLE
Words starting with G Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.65 Entropy (bits)
384 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 10% of evaluated openers
2.30 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GLUGS 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#12,789 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GLUGS ranks #12,789 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
34
3 guesses
709
4 guesses
1,235
5 guesses
355
6 guesses
17
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
LSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
66%
Green tile
22%
All gray
34%

Feedback distribution

64 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

811
350
268
134
106
75
59
59
51
47
40
40
38
28
20
15
15
14
13
11
11
10
10
8
8
8
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6
6
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GLUGS:

34% chance
Suggested:
ORATE
15% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
11% chance
Suggested:
RAILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

34.4% →
ORATE 6.07 bits
14.8% →
TIARE 5.74 bits
11.4% →
RAILE 5.26 bits
5.7% →
RONTE 4.98 bits
4.5% →
CRANE 4.96 bits
3.2% →
SALLE 4.75 bits
2.5% →
TRACE 4.84 bits
2.5% →
TRONE 4.94 bits
2.2% →
IRADE 4.77 bits
2.0% →
STRAE 4.19 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2L1U1G2S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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