5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

GOOEY

Yes, GOOEY was the Wordle answer on September 28, 2025 (Wordle #1562).

As an opener, it rules out about 89.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɡuːi//ˈɡui/

Adjective

Having the consistency of goo: soft or viscous, and sticky.

“gooey liquid covered the floor”

Adjective

Emotional or sentimental, especially to an excessive extent; mushy, soppy.

Noun

A thing which is soft or viscous, and sticky.

Noun

A person who favours closer relationships with other people and less structured settings, rather than formal, organized settings; also, an educational approach, curriculum, etc., which is less structured.

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 28, 2025 (#1562).

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

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How GOOEY performs as a guess

GOOEY 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 79.1% of games, misses completely in 20.9%, and leaves about 246 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,759 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

G___Y G in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position G__E_ G in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__Y O in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIL SLART STAIR SAINT SLANT MANOR
Words starting with G Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

4.17 Entropy (bits)
246 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
89.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 31% of evaluated openers
1.77 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GOOEY 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.75 Volatility
#12,759 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GOOEY ranks #12,759 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
720
4 guesses
1,193
5 guesses
370
6 guesses
25
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

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
EO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
47%
All gray
21%

Example solver route

R O A T E
V I N Y L
D O P E Y
G O O E Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GOOEY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

75 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

494
453
217
191
96
93
89
60
58
55
49
41
40
36
31
27
26
21
17
16
15
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11
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10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GOOEY:

21% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
19% chance
Suggested:
SLART
9% chance
Suggested:
STAIR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.9% →
TRAIL 6.07 bits
19.2% →
SLART 5.83 bits
9.2% →
STAIR 4.67 bits
8.1% →
SAINT 4.82 bits
4.1% →
SLANT 4.52 bits
3.9% →
SLART 4.95 bits
3.8% →
MANOR 5.03 bits
2.5% →
DAINE 4.35 bits
2.5% →
SLART 3.97 bits
2.3% →
LEARE 4.15 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2O1O1E1Y4
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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