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GUESS

Yes, GUESS was the Wordle answer on December 11, 2025 (Wordle #1636).

As an opener, it rules out about 87.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɡɛs/

Verb

To reach a partly (or totally) unconfirmed conclusion; to engage in conjecture; to speculate.

“We can only guess at what was going through her mind.”

Verb

To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.

“He who guesses the riddle shall have the ring.”

Noun

A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support.

“If you don't know the answer, take a guess.”

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: December 11, 2025 (#1636).

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

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How GUESS performs as a guess

GUESS 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 75.4% of games, misses completely in 24.6%, and leaves about 293 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,561 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 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__S_ G in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _U__S U in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

CAROL ROATE STALK PARTE COURT CARET
Words starting with G Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.99 Entropy (bits)
293 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
87.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 22% of evaluated openers
1.96 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GUESS 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#12,561 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GUESS ranks #12,561 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
682
4 guesses
1,279
5 guesses
309
6 guesses
32
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
2 vowels
Common:
ESU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
26%
All gray
25%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E N
C H E S S
G U E S S

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GUESS in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

72 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

580
507
181
113
99
98
91
70
58
56
46
45
42
40
37
33
21
16
14
11
11
10
9
9
9
9
8
8
8
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GUESS:

25% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
22% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
8% chance
Suggested:
STALK

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.6% →
CAROL 6.00 bits
21.5% →
ROATE 5.21 bits
7.7% →
STALK 4.89 bits
4.8% →
PARTE 4.63 bits
4.2% →
COURT 4.97 bits
4.2% →
CARET 4.54 bits
3.9% →
CLARY 4.23 bits
3.0% →
ROANY 4.91 bits
2.5% →
TRUCE 4.55 bits
2.4% →
RAINE 4.73 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2U1E1S1S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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