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GOOFY

Yes, GOOFY was the Wordle answer on October 23, 2024 (Wordle #1222).

As an opener, it rules out about 77.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɡuːfi//ˈɡufi/

Adjective

Quirky or silly, often in a humorous manner; daft.

Noun

Synonym of goof (“a foolish and/or silly person”).

Adjective

Of a person: having crooked, especially protruding, front teeth; buck-toothed.

Adverb

Of riding on a skateboard, snowboard, or surfboard: with one's right foot forward.

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: October 23, 2024 (#1222).

See the full page for that puzzle: October 23, 2024 (#1222).

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

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How GOOFY performs as a guess

GOOFY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 55.6% of games, misses completely in 44.4%, and leaves about 528 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,787 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.89 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___Y G in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position G__F_ G in the 1st position and F in the 4th position _O__Y O in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe GOOFY 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.

3.38 Entropy (bits)
528 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
77.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 5% of evaluated openers
2.57 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GOOFY 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
99.92% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#13,787 Rank among openers
Opening with GOOFY left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.89 average. It ranks #13,787 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
34
3 guesses
646
4 guesses
1,246
5 guesses
403
6 guesses
22
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
O

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
56%
Green tile
38%
All gray
44%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S C O L D
B O O Z Y
G O O F Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GOOFY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

GOOFY can come back 60 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1054 answers
225 answers
148 answers
135 answers
134 answers
113 answers
97 answers
58 answers
43 answers
34 answers
26 answers
22 answers
21 answers
17 answers
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12 answers
12 answers
10 answers
9 answers
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7 answers
7 answers
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6 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2O1O1F4Y4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

RAISE SLART CRUET LATER CRATE RAILE

Strategy after playing GOOFY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GOOFY:

44% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
9% chance
Suggested:
SLART
6% chance
Suggested:
CRUET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

44.4% →
RAISE 6.12 bits
9.5% →
SLART 4.85 bits
6.2% →
CRUET 4.81 bits
5.7% →
LATER 5.28 bits
5.6% →
CRATE 5.00 bits
4.8% →
RAILE 5.42 bits
4.1% →
ARIEL 5.40 bits
2.4% →
TRADE 4.94 bits
1.8% →
SLADE 3.50 bits
1.4% →
CARLE 4.71 bits

Research on GOOFY

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

Optimal play

Opening with GOOFY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.89 guesses and ranks #13,716 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.06 guesses at best and is rank #6,847 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 3.89, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it GOOFEE.

Related meanings

Synonyms SILLY WACKY foolish

Opposites wise

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
GOOFY sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 4 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 59 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.2 of 5).

In a sentence

I feel kind of goofy.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
It sounds a bit goofy.
© tatoeba.org contributor sacredceltic (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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); Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).