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GUEST

Yes, GUEST was the Wordle answer on June 26, 2023 (Wordle #737).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɡɛst/

Noun

A recipient of hospitality, especially someone staying by invitation at the house of another.

“The guests were let in by the butler.”

Noun

A patron or customer in a hotel etc.

“Guests must vacate their rooms by 10 o'clock on their day of departure.”

Verb

To appear as a guest, especially on a broadcast.

Verb

As a musician: to play as a guest, providing an instrument that a band/orchestra does not normally have in its line up (for instance, percussion in a string band).

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 26, 2023 (#737).

See the full page for that puzzle: June 26, 2023 (#737).

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

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How GUEST performs as a guess

GUEST is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 82.7% of games, misses completely in 17.3%, and leaves about 167 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,887 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

G___T G in the 1st position and T in the 5th position G__S_ G in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _U__T U in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe GUEST 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.

4.93 Entropy (bits)
167 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 80% of evaluated openers
1.02 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GUEST 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#2,887 Rank among openers
Opening with GUEST left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.64 average. It ranks #2,887 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
64
3 guesses
934
4 guesses
1,158
5 guesses
180
6 guesses
14
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:
ESTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
32%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L E E T
G U E S T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GUEST in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

GUEST can come back 107 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

411 answers
379 answers
126 answers
119 answers
103 answers
83 answers
69 answers
64 answers
57 answers
52 answers
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17 answers
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14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2U1E1S1T1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

CAROL RAILE TITAN COALY HATER PAIRE

Strategy after playing GUEST

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GUEST:

17% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
16% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
5% chance
Suggested:
TITAN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.3% →
CAROL 6.09 bits
16.0% →
RAILE 5.36 bits
5.3% →
TITAN 4.96 bits
5.0% →
COALY 4.89 bits
4.3% →
HATER 4.72 bits
3.5% →
PAIRE 4.51 bits
2.9% →
CLARY 4.27 bits
2.7% →
CREED 4.51 bits
2.4% →
CLONE 4.40 bits
2.2% →
ROANY 4.95 bits

Research on GUEST

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

Optimal play

Opening with GUEST, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #4,160 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 #1,907 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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 GEHST.

Rhymes with CHEST QUEST CREST WREST BLEST

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, GUEST is a kind of visitor or customer.

Synonyms client node

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
GUEST sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 38 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A1); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 54 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.2 of 5).

In a sentence

Do you have a guest?
© tatoeba.org contributor LB (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Do they have a guest?
© tatoeba.org contributor Massin04 (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).