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GUISE

Yes, GUISE was the Wordle answer on November 6, 2025 (Wordle #1601).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɡaɪz/

Noun

A customary way of speaking or acting; a fashion, a manner, a practice (often used formerly in such phrases as "at his own guise"; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself.)

Noun

An external appearance in manner or dress; an appropriate indication or expression; a garb; a shape.

Verb

To dress.

Verb

To act as a guiser; to go dressed up in a parade etc.

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 6, 2025 (#1601).

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

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How GUISE performs as a guess

GUISE 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 85.2% of games, misses completely in 14.8%, and leaves about 144 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,729 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__S_ G in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _U__E U in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

CAROL ALTER ANTIC SLANT CLARY CLOUT
Words starting with G Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.02 Entropy (bits)
144 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 84% of evaluated openers
0.92 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GUISE 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
0.72 Volatility
#5,729 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GUISE ranks #5,729 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
68
3 guesses
873
4 guesses
1,165
5 guesses
225
6 guesses
19
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:
EISU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
39%
All gray
15%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GUISE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

106 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

350
342
157
124
117
85
73
72
70
68
54
46
44
38
33
31
30
29
26
25
24
22
21
20
19
19
18
18
17
17

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GUISE:

15% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
15% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
7% chance
Suggested:
ANTIC

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.8% →
CAROL 5.84 bits
14.5% →
ALTER 5.39 bits
6.7% →
ANTIC 4.96 bits
5.3% →
SLANT 4.77 bits
5.0% →
CLARY 4.52 bits
3.6% →
CLOUT 4.92 bits
3.1% →
CLARY 4.47 bits
3.1% →
PATER 4.40 bits
3.0% →
CLARY 3.92 bits
2.9% →
DINER 4.60 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2U1I1S1E1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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