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

GYVED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.2% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of gyve

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 GYVED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GYVED 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 71.2% of games, misses completely in 28.8%, and leaves about 327 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,028 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe GYVED 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.

3.86 Entropy (bits)
327 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 17% of evaluated openers
2.09 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GYVED 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#12,028 Rank among openers
Opening with GYVED 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 3.81 average. It ranks #12,028 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
685
4 guesses
1,292
5 guesses
311
6 guesses
15
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
E

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
24%
All gray
29%

Feedback distribution

GYVED can come back 71 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

683 answers
439 answers
215 answers
195 answers
77 answers
65 answers
61 answers
53 answers
49 answers
48 answers
47 answers
44 answers
39 answers
28 answers
27 answers
26 answers
23 answers
23 answers
19 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
14 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
7 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2Y4V4E1D2
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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

Strategy after playing GYVED

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GYVED:

29% chance
Suggested:
COAST
18% chance
Suggested:
SLART
9% chance
Suggested:
SAULT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.8%
COAST 6.06 bits
18.5%
SLART 5.82 bits
9.1%
SAULT 4.91 bits
8.2%
STAIR 4.65 bits
3.2%
SAINT 4.89 bits
2.7%
IRATE 4.60 bits
2.6%
SORAL 4.47 bits
2.2%
SORAL 4.01 bits
2.1%
DROIT 4.77 bits
2.0%
RAINE 4.48 bits

Research on GYVED

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

Optimal play

Opening with GYVED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.82 guesses and ranks #11,469 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 GYVED can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.81, at or below the proven-optimal 3.82, 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it JYVD. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.