5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

GUANA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

An iguana.

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 GUANA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GUANA 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 70.6% of games, misses completely in 29.4%, and leaves about 299 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,834 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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__N_ G in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _U__A U in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

SOLER TALER CRISE SILER TORSE SLIER
Words starting with G Words ending with A

First-turn measures

4.07 Entropy (bits)
299 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 26% of evaluated openers
1.87 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GUANA 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#11,834 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GUANA ranks #11,834 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
742
4 guesses
1,215
5 guesses
319
6 guesses
29
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

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
ANU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
32%
All gray
29%

Feedback distribution

80 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

694
328
199
157
136
111
75
58
45
40
33
29
25
25
25
22
21
19
19
17
16
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16
14
14
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12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GUANA:

29% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
14% chance
Suggested:
TALER
8% chance
Suggested:
CRISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.4% →
SOLER 5.93 bits
13.9% →
TALER 5.61 bits
8.4% →
CRISE 5.08 bits
6.7% →
SILER 5.15 bits
5.8% →
TORSE 5.31 bits
4.7% →
SLIER 4.50 bits
3.2% →
CANOE 4.55 bits
2.5% →
STORE 4.67 bits
1.9% →
TRODE 4.23 bits
1.7% →
DROLE 4.87 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2U1A1N1A1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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