5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

GURUS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɡʊ.ɹuːz//ˈɡuː.ɹuːz//ˈɡʊ.ɹuz/

Noun

plural of guru

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 GURUS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GURUS 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 70.9% of games, misses completely in 29.1%, and leaves about 339 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,039 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.84 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__U_ G in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _U__S U in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

OLATE ARIEL STALE ALONE STOAE POTAE
Words starting with G Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.75 Entropy (bits)
339 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 13% of evaluated openers
2.20 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GURUS 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.

3.84 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#13,039 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GURUS ranks #13,039 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
704
4 guesses
1,213
5 guesses
363
6 guesses
29
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
RSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
22%
All gray
29%

Feedback distribution

70 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

686
412
329
98
97
87
79
79
44
40
37
34
27
25
22
21
19
18
14
13
13
12
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10
10
8
8
7
7
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GURUS:

29% chance
Suggested:
OLATE
17% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
14% chance
Suggested:
STALE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.1% →
OLATE 5.96 bits
17.5% →
ARIEL 5.14 bits
14.0% →
STALE 5.70 bits
4.2% →
ALONE 5.29 bits
4.1% →
STOAE 4.94 bits
3.7% →
POTAE 4.68 bits
3.4% →
CLONE 4.73 bits
3.4% →
CLINE 4.18 bits
1.9% →
SLANT 4.12 bits
1.7% →
IRATE 4.18 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2U1R1U1S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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