Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

GYRAL

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Of or pertaining to a gyrus

Adjective

Moving circularly or spirally; gyratory; whirling.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use GYRAL in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.2% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How GYRAL performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GYRAL 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 84.0% of games, misses completely in 16.0%, and leaves about 162 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,652 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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.

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First-turn measures

All four describe GYRAL used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

4.77 Entropy (bits)
162 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.2% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GYRAL 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#4,652 Rank among openers
Opening with GYRAL left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.66 average. It ranks #4,652 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
66
3 guesses
909
4 guesses
1,143
5 guesses
220
6 guesses
15

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ALR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
23%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

GYRAL can come back 102 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

382 answers
290 answers
226 answers
163 answers
144 answers
126 answers
114 answers
69 answers
59 answers
59 answers
49 answers
47 answers
37 answers
30 answers
30 answers
30 answers
27 answers
26 answers
23 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2Y4R1A1L1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing GYRAL

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to GYRAL.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GYRAL:

16% chance
Suggested:
TOISE
12% chance
Suggested:
TOISE
9% chance
Suggested:
SHITE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.0% →
TOISE 6.17 bits
12.2% →
TOISE 5.49 bits
9.5% →
SHITE 5.44 bits
6.8% →
SLICE 5.28 bits
6.0% →
TRACE 4.74 bits
5.3% →
TOISE 4.70 bits
4.8% →
STALE 4.81 bits
2.9% →
SUITE 5.07 bits
2.5% →
NASTY 4.10 bits
2.5% →
NOISE 4.69 bits

Research on GYRAL

Game-tree analysis and word research for GYRAL, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with GYRAL, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,650 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with GYRAL can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.71, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).