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

GOOMY

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

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

As an opener, it rules out about 79.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

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

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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 GOOMY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GOOMY 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 57.0% of games, misses completely in 43.0%, and leaves about 495 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,258 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.86 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__M_ G in the 1st position and M 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 GOOMY.

First-turn measures

All four describe GOOMY 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.

3.54 Entropy (bits)
495 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
79.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 8% of evaluated openers
2.41 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GOOMY 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.

3.86 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#13,258 Rank among openers
Opening with GOOMY left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.86 average. It ranks #13,258 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
671
4 guesses
1,228
5 guesses
379
6 guesses
25
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
O

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
57%
Green tile
39%
All gray
43%

Feedback distribution

GOOMY can come back 74 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1020 answers
220 answers
144 answers
127 answers
113 answers
111 answers
110 answers
58 answers
43 answers
42 answers
30 answers
29 answers
28 answers
27 answers
26 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers
5 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2O1O1M3Y4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

RAISE SLART CRATE CRUET LATER RAILE

Strategy after playing GOOMY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GOOMY:

43% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
9% chance
Suggested:
SLART
6% chance
Suggested:
CRATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

43.0% →
RAISE 6.13 bits
9.3% →
SLART 4.86 bits
6.1% →
CRATE 4.98 bits
5.3% →
CRUET 4.94 bits
4.8% →
LATER 5.34 bits
4.7% →
RAILE 5.32 bits
4.6% →
RAISE 5.37 bits
2.4% →
URITE 4.91 bits
1.8% →
PLACE 4.43 bits
1.8% →
PARLE 3.37 bits

Research on GOOMY

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

Optimal play

Opening with GOOMY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.86 guesses and ranks #12,822 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.00 guesses at best and is rank #6,214 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.86, at or below the proven-optimal 3.86, 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 GOOMEE. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.