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

GOLDS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɡəʊldz//ɡɔʊldz//ɡoʊldz/

Noun

plural of gold

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of gold

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 GOLDS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GOLDS 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 212 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,860 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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__D_ G in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in GOLDS.

First-turn measures

All four describe GOLDS 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.

4.45 Entropy (bits)
212 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 49% of evaluated openers
1.49 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GOLDS 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.67 Spread of game lengths
#2,860 Rank among openers
Opening with GOLDS left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.67 means those games clustered within about 0.67 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It ranks #2,860 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
956
4 guesses
1,163
5 guesses
175
6 guesses
10
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
LOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
24%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

GOLDS can come back 88 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

525 answers
294 answers
241 answers
152 answers
118 answers
109 answers
79 answers
72 answers
71 answers
49 answers
42 answers
41 answers
41 answers
39 answers
36 answers
35 answers
32 answers
25 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
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14 answers
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12 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2O1L1D2S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

CARTE STARE TIARE CRATE DRIED THALE

Strategy after playing GOLDS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GOLDS:

22% chance
Suggested:
CARTE
12% chance
Suggested:
STARE
10% chance
Suggested:
TIARE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.1% →
CARTE 6.38 bits
12.4% →
STARE 5.71 bits
10.2% →
TIARE 5.44 bits
6.4% →
CRATE 5.27 bits
5.0% →
DRIED 5.44 bits
4.6% →
CARTE 4.81 bits
3.3% →
THALE 4.80 bits
3.0% →
RAINE 5.27 bits
3.0% →
TROPE 4.20 bits
2.1% →
RAILE 4.52 bits

Research on GOLDS

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

Optimal play

Opening with GOLDS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #3,901 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with GOLDS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it GOHLDZ.

Rhymes with HOLDS FOLDS MOLDS COLDS BOLDS

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, GOLDS is a kind of valuable or yellow.

Synonyms golden au AMBER gilded gilt METAL

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
GOLDS sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.2 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).