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

GYRES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of gyre

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of gyre

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 GYRES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GYRES 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 85.7% of games, misses completely in 14.3%, and leaves about 144 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,991 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

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All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.
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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__E_ G in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _Y__S Y in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in GYRES.

First-turn measures

All four describe GYRES 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.

4.78 Entropy (bits)
144 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 70% of evaluated openers
1.17 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GYRES 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#7,991 Rank among openers
Opening with GYRES solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.72 average. It ranks #7,991 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
829
4 guesses
1,218
5 guesses
239
6 guesses
17
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ERS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
26%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

GYRES can come back 88 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

339 answers
248 answers
184 answers
176 answers
145 answers
133 answers
122 answers
122 answers
91 answers
63 answers
54 answers
51 answers
48 answers
43 answers
34 answers
31 answers
29 answers
28 answers
25 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2Y4R1E1S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

CLOUT ALINE TRAIN SLANT DAILY TRACE

Strategy after playing GYRES

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GYRES:

14% chance
Suggested:
CLOUT
10% chance
Suggested:
ALINE
8% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.3% →
CLOUT 5.87 bits
10.4% →
ALINE 5.31 bits
7.8% →
TRAIN 5.23 bits
7.4% →
SLANT 5.16 bits
6.1% →
DAILY 4.41 bits
5.6% →
SLANT 4.94 bits
5.1% →
TRACE 4.80 bits
5.1% →
TOILE 3.50 bits
3.8% →
LEANT 4.27 bits
2.7% →
SAULT 4.20 bits

Research on GYRES

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

Optimal play

Opening with GYRES, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,348 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 GYRES can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.72; proven optimal play reaches 3.71. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it JYRZ. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, GYRES is a kind of form.

Synonyms roll scroll coil curl

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
GYRES sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).