5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

GUIDS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of guid; Alternative form of GUIDs.

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 GUIDS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GUIDS 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 72.1% of games, misses completely in 27.9%, and leaves about 267 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,476 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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__D_ G in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _U__S U in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

CARLE STARE CATER DROLE CARET CRANE
Words starting with G Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.28 Entropy (bits)
267 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 37% of evaluated openers
1.67 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GUIDS 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#7,476 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GUIDS ranks #7,476 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
847
4 guesses
1,214
5 guesses
231
6 guesses
15
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
2 vowels
Common:
ISU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
26%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

87 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

659
308
184
114
103
101
80
66
65
59
58
48
47
36
30
28
25
23
22
16
16
14
12
11
11
10
10
9
9
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GUIDS:

28% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
13% chance
Suggested:
STARE
8% chance
Suggested:
CATER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.9% →
CARLE 6.24 bits
13.1% →
STARE 5.67 bits
7.8% →
CATER 5.17 bits
4.8% →
DROLE 5.33 bits
4.4% →
CARET 5.27 bits
4.3% →
CRANE 5.00 bits
3.4% →
EARLY 4.25 bits
2.8% →
STOLE 4.01 bits
2.8% →
SHART 4.27 bits
2.5% →
RANEE 4.94 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2U1I1D2S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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