5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

GUARD

Yes, GUARD was the Wordle answer on June 11, 2023 (Wordle #722).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɡɑːd//ɡɑɹd/

Noun

A person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something.

“The prison guard unlocked the door of the cell. After completing the repairs, he replaced the sump guard.”

Noun

A garda; a police officer.

Verb

To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend.

“All of the mountain passes are guarded by troops.”

Verb

To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like.

“Guard the prisoner.”

Alternative forms: gard, garde, guarde

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

Used once

Past Wordle answer: June 11, 2023 (#722).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How GUARD performs as a guess

GUARD is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 80.7% of games, misses completely in 19.3%, and leaves about 176 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,919 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.

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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 _U__D U in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

STOLE TOILE TOISE STILE LATER STONE
Words starting with G Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.74 Entropy (bits)
176 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 68% of evaluated openers
1.21 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GUARD 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
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#3,919 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GUARD ranks #3,919 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
944
4 guesses
1,129
5 guesses
211
6 guesses
13
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
2 vowels
Common:
ARU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
32%
All gray
19%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S W I N G
G R A P H
G U A R D

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GUARD in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

98 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

455
259
239
149
130
99
75
65
55
53
51
47
42
41
34
33
32
31
31
22
21
19
16
16
14
14
13
13
13
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GUARD:

19% chance
Suggested:
STOLE
11% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
10% chance
Suggested:
TOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.3% →
STOLE 6.03 bits
11.0% →
TOILE 5.20 bits
10.1% →
TOISE 5.32 bits
6.3% →
STILE 5.21 bits
5.5% →
LATER 4.63 bits
4.2% →
STONE 5.08 bits
3.2% →
SHIEL 4.20 bits
2.8% →
DEITY 4.93 bits
2.3% →
SIENT 4.62 bits
2.2% →
SCOTE 4.61 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2U1A1R1D2
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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