5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

GNAWS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative 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 GNAWS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GNAWS 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 75.6% of games, misses completely in 24.4%, and leaves about 243 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,065 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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__W_ G in the 1st position and W in the 4th position _N__S N in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE TALER ROUET COREY TRICE THALE
Words starting with G Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.24 Entropy (bits)
243 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 35% of evaluated openers
1.71 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GNAWS 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#7,065 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GNAWS ranks #7,065 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
857
4 guesses
1,200
5 guesses
233
6 guesses
13
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ANS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
22%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

78 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

576
316
251
154
117
84
83
81
62
61
49
48
42
37
26
25
25
23
19
18
17
15
15
15
13
12
11
11
9
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GNAWS:

24% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
13% chance
Suggested:
TALER
11% chance
Suggested:
ROUET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.4% →
TOILE 6.01 bits
13.4% →
TALER 5.55 bits
10.6% →
ROUET 5.46 bits
6.5% →
COREY 5.10 bits
5.0% →
TRICE 5.15 bits
3.6% →
THALE 4.21 bits
3.5% →
CATER 4.39 bits
3.4% →
TALER 4.73 bits
2.6% →
TRODE 5.08 bits
2.6% →
ROULE 4.85 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2N1A1W4S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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