5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

GUGAS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of guga

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 GUGAS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GUGAS 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 72.9% of games, misses completely in 27.1%, and leaves about 316 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,110 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.85 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__A_ G in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _U__S U in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TONER CARLE STIPE THALE TRONE TALER
Words starting with G Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.77 Entropy (bits)
316 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 14% of evaluated openers
2.18 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GUGAS 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.

3.85 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#13,110 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GUGAS ranks #13,110 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
37
3 guesses
667
4 guesses
1,286
5 guesses
337
6 guesses
23
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:
ASU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
22%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

65 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

639
438
259
165
125
108
99
58
50
42
30
30
29
29
27
22
14
12
11
11
11
10
10
10
9
9
7
6
6
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GUGAS:

27% chance
Suggested:
TONER
19% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
11% chance
Suggested:
STIPE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.1% →
TONER 5.90 bits
18.6% →
CARLE 5.39 bits
11.0% →
STIPE 5.40 bits
7.0% →
THALE 4.89 bits
5.3% →
TRONE 5.32 bits
4.6% →
TALER 4.58 bits
4.2% →
CRIME 4.30 bits
2.5% →
SHUNT 4.24 bits
2.1% →
DRONE 4.57 bits
1.8% →
DRONE 4.80 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2U1G2A1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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