5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

GNATS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /næts/

Noun

plural of gnat

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 GNATS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GNATS 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 81.6% of games, misses completely in 18.4%, and leaves about 156 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,219 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___S G in the 1st position and S in the 5th position G__T_ G in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _N__S N in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

DROLE CARLE SOREL ROUET COREY CRIME
Words starting with G Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.84 Entropy (bits)
156 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.4% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GNATS 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
0.67 Volatility
#2,219 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GNATS ranks #2,219 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
951
4 guesses
1,168
5 guesses
164
6 guesses
10

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ANST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
27%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

96 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

434
223
176
151
145
95
90
85
67
58
58
55
48
44
42
36
28
28
27
27
25
22
21
19
18
17
17
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16
15

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GNATS:

18% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
9% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
7% chance
Suggested:
SOREL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.4% →
DROLE 6.02 bits
9.5% →
CARLE 5.39 bits
7.5% →
SOREL 5.26 bits
6.4% →
ROUET 5.47 bits
6.1% →
COREY 5.15 bits
4.0% →
CRIME 4.87 bits
3.8% →
ALTER 4.73 bits
3.6% →
ROUET 4.56 bits
2.8% →
CARLE 4.59 bits
2.5% →
PALER 4.61 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2N1A1T1S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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