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

GLUTE

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɡluːt/

Noun

A gluteal muscle.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use GLUTE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 94.2% of possible answers.

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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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

GLUTE in Connections

1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How GLUTE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GLUTE 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 84.6% of games, misses completely in 15.4%, and leaves about 138 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,666 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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.
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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

G___E G in the 1st position and E in the 5th position G__T_ G in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _L__E L in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe GLUTE 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.

5.05 Entropy (bits)
138 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.2% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GLUTE 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#2,666 Rank among openers
Opening with GLUTE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It ranks #2,666 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
75
3 guesses
931
4 guesses
1,150
5 guesses
180
6 guesses
17

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ELTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
36%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

GLUTE can come back 111 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

368 answers
251 answers
166 answers
165 answers
144 answers
116 answers
99 answers
90 answers
63 answers
53 answers
44 answers
39 answers
34 answers
31 answers
30 answers
30 answers
29 answers
29 answers
26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
24 answers
22 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2L1U1T1E1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

CAIRN SONAR TRAIT LOYAL SETER PENAL

Strategy after playing GLUTE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GLUTE:

15% chance
Suggested:
CAIRN
11% chance
Suggested:
SONAR
7% chance
Suggested:
TRAIT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.4% →
CAIRN 6.10 bits
10.5% →
SONAR 5.23 bits
7.0% →
TRAIT 5.47 bits
6.9% →
SONAR 5.01 bits
6.0% →
LOYAL 5.03 bits
4.9% →
SETER 4.74 bits
4.2% →
PENAL 4.29 bits
3.8% →
SNARY 4.42 bits
2.6% →
FLASK 4.10 bits
2.2% →
RAINY 4.24 bits

Research on GLUTE

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

Optimal play

Opening with GLUTE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,443 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.79 guesses at best and is rank #1,090 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.66, 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
GLUTE 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).