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GUIDE

Yes, GUIDE was the Wordle answer on November 25, 2023 (Wordle #889).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɡaɪd/

Noun

Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer information and explanation, or to lead them through dangerous terrain.

“The guide led us around the museum and explained the exhibits.”

Noun

A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook.

Verb

To serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path.

Verb

To steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot.

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: November 25, 2023 (#889).

See the full page for that puzzle: November 25, 2023 (#889).

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

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How GUIDE performs as a guess

GUIDE 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 81.3% of games, misses completely in 18.7%, and leaves about 186 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,671 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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___E G in the 1st position and E in the 5th position G__D_ G in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _U__E U in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe GUIDE 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.

4.73 Entropy (bits)
186 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 67% of evaluated openers
1.22 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GUIDE 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#5,671 Rank among openers
Opening with GUIDE left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.68 average. It ranks #5,671 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
65
3 guesses
872
4 guesses
1,179
5 guesses
214
6 guesses
20
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
3 vowels
Common:
EIU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
37%
All gray
19%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I N G
B E I G E
G U I D E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GUIDE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

GUIDE can come back 108 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

443 answers
360 answers
183 answers
158 answers
121 answers
109 answers
82 answers
65 answers
60 answers
57 answers
49 answers
38 answers
32 answers
30 answers
26 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2U1I1D2E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SLART ALTER COAST SNARY SOLAR RISEN

Strategy after playing GUIDE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GUIDE:

19% chance
Suggested:
SLART
15% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
8% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.7% →
SLART 5.85 bits
15.2% →
ALTER 5.36 bits
7.7% →
SLART 5.33 bits
6.7% →
COAST 5.14 bits
5.1% →
SLART 5.09 bits
4.6% →
SLART 4.98 bits
3.5% →
SNARY 4.13 bits
2.7% →
SOLAR 4.44 bits
2.5% →
RISEN 4.46 bits
2.4% →
BOARD 4.75 bits

Research on GUIDE

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

Optimal play

Opening with GUIDE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,273 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with GUIDE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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 GYD.

Rhymes with TRIED ASIDE PRIDE SLIDE CRIED

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, GUIDE is a kind of escort or leader.

Synonyms take POINT head run lead pass

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
GUIDE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 56 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 8, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 59 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.0 of 5).

In a sentence

I work as a guide.
© tatoeba.org contributor Ergulis (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I am not a guide.
© tatoeba.org contributor Singaravelu (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).