5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

GUIDO

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɡwidoʊ//ˈɡwiːdəʊ/

Noun

An Italian or (especially) Italian-American man, especially a stereotypical working-class or lower-class, usually urban-dwelling one.

Noun

A guidance officer.

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 GUIDO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GUIDO 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 74.3% of games, misses completely in 25.7%, and leaves about 255 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,157 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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___O G in the 1st position and O in the 5th position G__D_ G in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _U__O U in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

Try next

REAST TARSE LATER SLATE SALET SNARY
Words starting with G Words ending with O

First-turn measures

4.33 Entropy (bits)
255 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 40% of evaluated openers
1.62 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GUIDO 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#8,157 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GUIDO ranks #8,157 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
835
4 guesses
1,176
5 guesses
265
6 guesses
18
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:
IOU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
27%
All gray
26%

Feedback distribution

96 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

605
355
192
148
133
93
78
52
52
42
42
34
34
26
26
24
24
23
21
19
17
16
15
15
13
13
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12
11
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GUIDO:

26% chance
Suggested:
REAST
15% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
8% chance
Suggested:
LATER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.7% →
REAST 6.17 bits
15.1% →
TARSE 5.38 bits
8.1% →
LATER 5.17 bits
6.3% →
SLATE 5.02 bits
5.6% →
SALET 5.27 bits
3.9% →
SNARY 4.30 bits
3.3% →
TREAD 5.11 bits
2.2% →
DROOL 4.47 bits
2.2% →
LATER 4.42 bits
1.8% →
SCOTE 4.21 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2U1I1D2O1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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