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GOLEM

Yes, GOLEM was the Wordle answer on September 14, 2021 (Wordle #87).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɡəʊ.ləm//ˈɡɒl.əm//ˈɡoʊ.ləm/

Noun

A humanoid creature made from clay, animated by magic.

Noun

A humanoid creature made from any previously inanimate matter, such as wood or stone, animated by magic.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: September 14, 2021 (#87).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How GOLEM performs as a guess

GOLEM is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 83.4% of games, misses completely in 16.6%, and leaves about 162 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,809 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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___M G in the 1st position and M in the 5th position G__E_ G in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__M O in the 2nd position and M in the 5th position

Try next

SAINT REAST ARSON STAIR TEASE SHART
Words starting with G Words ending with M

First-turn measures

4.80 Entropy (bits)
162 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 72% of evaluated openers
1.15 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GOLEM 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
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#2,809 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GOLEM ranks #2,809 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
67
3 guesses
919
4 guesses
1,180
5 guesses
177
6 guesses
9
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:
ELO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
32%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

R O A T E
V I N Y L
G O L E M

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GOLEM in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

101 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

392
323
163
154
150
109
100
73
70
49
47
44
43
37
37
29
27
27
25
24
19
19
19
18
18
16
16
13
13
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GOLEM:

17% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
14% chance
Suggested:
REAST
7% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.6% →
SAINT 6.19 bits
13.7% →
REAST 5.66 bits
6.9% →
SAINT 5.16 bits
6.5% →
ARSON 5.22 bits
6.4% →
STAIR 4.69 bits
4.6% →
TEASE 4.81 bits
4.2% →
SHART 4.60 bits
3.1% →
SNARE 4.41 bits
3.0% →
SAUCY 4.79 bits
2.1% →
LEPER 3.75 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2O1L1E1M3
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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