5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

GUARS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of guar

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 GUARS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GUARS 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 84.7% of games, misses completely in 15.3%, and leaves about 147 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,562 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.

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___S G in the 1st position and S in the 5th position G__R_ G in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _U__S U in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE CLOTE STILE TALER CLINE CONTE
Words starting with G Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.86 Entropy (bits)
147 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.8% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GUARS 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
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#4,562 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GUARS ranks #4,562 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
929
4 guesses
1,132
5 guesses
219
6 guesses
15

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ARSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
30%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

97 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

362
243
240
185
123
81
81
76
68
64
57
51
49
44
40
37
34
27
26
26
26
25
23
22
21
20
18
16
14
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GUARS:

15% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
10% chance
Suggested:
CLOTE
10% chance
Suggested:
TOILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.3% →
TOILE 5.98 bits
10.3% →
CLOTE 5.36 bits
10.2% →
TOILE 5.08 bits
7.8% →
STILE 5.45 bits
5.2% →
TALER 4.58 bits
3.4% →
CLINE 4.81 bits
3.4% →
CLOTE 4.38 bits
3.2% →
CONTE 5.03 bits
2.9% →
CLINE 4.23 bits
2.7% →
SALET 4.52 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2U1A1R1S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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