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

GOUTS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of gout

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of gout

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 GOUTS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GOUTS 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 76.5% of games, misses completely in 23.5%, and leaves about 204 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,251 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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.

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Useful pattern pages

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

G___S G in the 1st position and S in the 5th position G__T_ G in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe GOUTS 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.

4.62 Entropy (bits)
204 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 60% of evaluated openers
1.32 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GOUTS 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#4,251 Rank among openers
Opening with GOUTS solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.66 average. It ranks #4,251 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
56
3 guesses
911
4 guesses
1,186
5 guesses
185
6 guesses
16
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
OSTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
28%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

GOUTS can come back 96 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

558 answers
211 answers
185 answers
172 answers
124 answers
107 answers
95 answers
74 answers
58 answers
57 answers
46 answers
42 answers
38 answers
35 answers
34 answers
32 answers
30 answers
26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
23 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers
15 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2O1U1T1S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

RAILE PARLE CARET CRANE CARLE CURLY

Strategy after playing GOUTS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GOUTS:

24% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
9% chance
Suggested:
PARLE
8% chance
Suggested:
CARET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.5% →
RAILE 6.18 bits
8.9% →
PARLE 5.60 bits
7.8% →
CARET 5.51 bits
7.2% →
CRANE 5.43 bits
5.2% →
CARLE 4.80 bits
4.5% →
CURLY 4.53 bits
4.0% →
LEAST 4.76 bits
3.1% →
RAINE 5.22 bits
2.4% →
CLONE 4.04 bits
2.4% →
DEARY 4.42 bits

Research on GOUTS

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

Optimal play

Opening with GOUTS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,671 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.82 guesses at best and is rank #1,994 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.71, 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

One syllable Say it GOWTS. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, GOUTS is a kind of arthritis.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
GOUTS sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).