5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

GNAWN

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

As an opener, it rules out about 82.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

past participle of gnaw

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 GNAWN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GNAWN 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 64.0% of games, misses completely in 36.0%, and leaves about 416 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,173 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.85 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___N G in the 1st position and N in the 5th position G__W_ G in the 1st position and W in the 4th position _N__N N in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE TALER CRISE HOISE SHOER ROULE
Words starting with G Words ending with N

First-turn measures

3.56 Entropy (bits)
416 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
82.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 8% of evaluated openers
2.39 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GNAWN 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.

3.85 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#13,173 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GNAWN ranks #13,173 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
32
3 guesses
675
4 guesses
1,272
5 guesses
359
6 guesses
15
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:
AN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
64%
Green tile
25%
All gray
36%

Feedback distribution

64 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

850
402
206
155
87
68
60
58
51
41
38
35
28
25
24
18
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6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GNAWN:

36% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
17% chance
Suggested:
TALER
9% chance
Suggested:
CRISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

36.0% →
TOILE 5.98 bits
17.0% →
TALER 5.56 bits
8.7% →
CRISE 5.09 bits
6.6% →
HOISE 5.25 bits
3.7% →
SHOER 5.30 bits
2.9% →
ROULE 4.89 bits
2.5% →
ROULE 5.02 bits
2.5% →
STILE 3.96 bits
2.2% →
TUILE 4.72 bits
1.7% →
SOLER 4.65 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2N1A1W4N1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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