5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

GOURA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Any of several crested ground-dwelling pigeons, of the genus Goura, from New Guinea

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 GOURA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GOURA 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 86.6% of games, misses completely in 13.4%, and leaves about 154 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,693 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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___A G in the 1st position and A in the 5th position G__R_ G in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _O__A O in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

SLATE STILE SEINE CASTE CLINE SLICE
Words starting with G Words ending with A

First-turn measures

4.84 Entropy (bits)
154 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 74% of evaluated openers
1.11 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GOURA 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#6,693 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GOURA ranks #6,693 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
66
3 guesses
875
4 guesses
1,138
5 guesses
256
6 guesses
19
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
3 vowels
Common:
AORU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
29%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

104 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

371
315
173
161
130
115
106
66
56
52
50
50
48
47
32
31
28
28
28
26
25
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21
21
19
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15
14
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GOURA:

16% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
13% chance
Suggested:
STILE
7% chance
Suggested:
SEINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.7% →
SLATE 5.67 bits
13.4% →
STILE 5.89 bits
7.3% →
SEINE 4.85 bits
6.8% →
CASTE 4.72 bits
5.5% →
CLINE 5.07 bits
4.9% →
SLICE 4.78 bits
4.5% →
CLOTE 4.30 bits
2.8% →
TENOR 3.94 bits
2.4% →
SCOTE 3.68 bits
2.2% →
TALON 4.51 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2O1U1R1A1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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