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

GOBBI

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

No dictionary definition for GOBBI is recorded in our sourced data.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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Use GOBBI in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 81.4% of possible answers.

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.

How GOBBI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GOBBI 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 63.9% of games, misses completely in 36.1%, and leaves about 444 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,786 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.89 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe GOBBI 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.

3.32 Entropy (bits)
444 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
81.4% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GOBBI 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.

3.89 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#13,786 Rank among openers
Opening with GOBBI left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.89 average. It ranks #13,786 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
31
3 guesses
629
4 guesses
1,291
5 guesses
379
6 guesses
21

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
IO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
64%
Green tile
20%
All gray
36%

Feedback distribution

GOBBI can come back 54 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

861 answers
430 answers
259 answers
194 answers
90 answers
64 answers
57 answers
55 answers
48 answers
32 answers
30 answers
27 answers
25 answers
22 answers
21 answers
19 answers
18 answers
16 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers
3 answers
3 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2O1B3B3I1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Strategy after playing GOBBI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GOBBI:

36% chance
Suggested:
REAST
18% chance
Suggested:
SALET
11% chance
Suggested:
CRATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

36.1% →
REAST 6.27 bits
18.0% →
SALET 5.34 bits
10.9% →
CRATE 5.36 bits
8.1% →
TALER 4.72 bits
3.8% →
SLATE 5.22 bits
2.7% →
LARGE 4.97 bits
2.4% →
SLATE 4.64 bits
2.3% →
LEANT 4.32 bits
2.0% →
PATER 4.04 bits
1.3% →
SLANE 4.00 bits

Research on GOBBI

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

Optimal play

Opening with GOBBI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.92 guesses and ranks #14,114 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.05 guesses at best and is rank #6,813 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.89, at or below the proven-optimal 3.92, 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
GOBBI sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

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