5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet B tier opener

GUILT

GUILT is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 92.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɡɪlt/

Noun

Responsibility for wrongdoing.

Noun

The state of having been found guilty or admitted guilt in legal proceedings.

Verb

To cause someone to feel guilt, particularly in order to influence their behaviour.

“He didn't want to do it, but his wife guilted him into it.”

Verb

To commit offenses; act criminally.

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

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 GUILT performs as a guess

GUILT 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 77.1% of games, misses completely in 22.9%, and leaves about 188 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,261 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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___T G in the 1st position and T in the 5th position G__L_ G in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _U__T U in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

CARSE SOARE TARTE RANCE CRANE SCARE
Words starting with G Words ending with T

First-turn measures

4.82 Entropy (bits)
188 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 73% of evaluated openers
1.13 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GUILT 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#2,261 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GUILT ranks #2,261 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
66
3 guesses
991
4 guesses
1,068
5 guesses
212
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:
ILTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
36%
All gray
23%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GUILT in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

113 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

540
206
188
137
100
82
77
70
67
61
50
43
40
39
36
36
33
29
26
25
22
22
21
21
18
17
17
16
16
15

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GUILT:

23% chance
Suggested:
CARSE
9% chance
Suggested:
SOARE
8% chance
Suggested:
TARTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.9% →
CARSE 6.21 bits
8.7% →
SOARE 5.28 bits
8.0% →
TARTE 5.73 bits
5.8% →
RANCE 5.24 bits
4.2% →
CRANE 5.01 bits
3.5% →
CARSE 5.13 bits
3.3% →
SCARE 5.34 bits
3.0% →
MARSE 4.39 bits
2.8% →
SAYNE 4.62 bits
2.6% →
TITAN 4.24 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2U1I1L1T1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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