5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

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).

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 2,358 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 185 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,671 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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___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

Try next

SLART ALTER COAST SNARY SOLAR BOARD
Words starting with G Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.73 Entropy (bits)
185 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 opener: v5 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
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#5,671 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GUIDE 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 (3.45 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
G U I D E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GUIDE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

108 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

441
357
183
156
119
108
81
65
57
57
49
38
32
30
26
24
24
23
22
22
21
19
17
17
15
14
14
14
13
13

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
15.1% →
ALTER 5.35 bits
7.8% →
SLART 5.33 bits
6.6% →
COAST 5.14 bits
5.0% →
SLART 5.11 bits
4.6% →
SLART 4.98 bits
3.4% →
SNARY 4.09 bits
2.8% →
SOLAR 4.44 bits
2.4% →
BOARD 4.76 bits
2.4% →
RISEN 4.46 bits

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.