5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

GOBAN

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of gobang (“strategy game”).

Noun

Alternative form of gobang (“board for playing go”).

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 GOBAN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GOBAN 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 77.9% of games, misses completely in 22.1%, and leaves about 221 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,492 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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__A_ G in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _O__N O in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

SLIER TARSE TRICE CRUET TALER CASTE
Words starting with G Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.52 Entropy (bits)
221 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 53% of evaluated openers
1.43 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GOBAN 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#5,492 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GOBAN ranks #5,492 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
62
3 guesses
869
4 guesses
1,198
5 guesses
211
6 guesses
12
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
2 vowels
Common:
ANO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
28%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

102 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

520
387
167
141
137
87
83
60
51
42
39
38
33
32
32
31
24
24
22
21
19
19
17
17
16
16
16
15
13
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GOBAN:

22% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
16% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
7% chance
Suggested:
TRICE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.1% →
SLIER 6.12 bits
16.4% →
TARSE 5.60 bits
7.1% →
TRICE 5.21 bits
6.0% →
TRICE 5.04 bits
5.8% →
CRUET 4.62 bits
3.7% →
TALER 4.72 bits
3.5% →
CASTE 4.33 bits
2.5% →
SLIER 4.93 bits
2.2% →
VALOR 4.36 bits
1.8% →
SLADE 4.62 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2O1B3A1N1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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