5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

GOURD

GOURD is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 90.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɡʊəd//ɡɔːd//ɡʊɚd/

Noun

Any of the trailing or climbing vines producing fruit with a hard rind or shell, from the genera Lagenaria and Cucurbita (in Cucurbitaceae).

Noun

A hard-shelled fruit from a plant in Lagenaria or Cucurbita.

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

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 GOURD performs as a guess

GOURD is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,359 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 74.8% of games, misses completely in 25.2%, and leaves about 223 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,792 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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___D G in the 1st position and D in the 5th position G__R_ G in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _O__D O in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

SLATE TEASE SLANE SLICE LEANT DEALT
Words starting with G Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.60 Entropy (bits)
223 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.6% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GOURD 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#3,792 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GOURD ranks #3,792 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
938
4 guesses
1,135
5 guesses
205
6 guesses
15

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ORU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
31%
All gray
25%

Example solver route

R O A T E
D U C H Y
G O U R D

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GOURD in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

104 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

595
279
155
114
114
79
75
72
72
68
62
49
43
38
30
28
22
21
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20
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13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GOURD:

25% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
12% chance
Suggested:
TEASE
7% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.2% →
SLATE 6.44 bits
11.8% →
TEASE 5.31 bits
6.6% →
SLANE 5.27 bits
4.8% →
SLICE 4.82 bits
4.8% →
LEANT 4.49 bits
3.3% →
DEALT 5.14 bits
3.2% →
CANOE 4.20 bits
3.1% →
LEAST 5.01 bits
3.1% →
LEANT 5.14 bits
2.9% →
SLANT 4.60 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2O1U1R1D2
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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