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GLORY

Yes, GLORY was the Wordle answer on September 23, 2022 (Wordle #461).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɡlɔːɹi//ˈɡloːɹɪj//ˈɡloɹi/

Noun

Great beauty and splendor.

Noun

Honour, admiration, or distinction, accorded by common consent to a person or thing; high reputation; renown.

Verb

To exult with joy; to rejoice.

Verb

To boast; to be proud.

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: September 23, 2022 (#461).

See the full page for that puzzle: September 23, 2022 (#461).

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

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How GLORY performs as a guess

GLORY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 82.1% of games, misses completely in 17.9%, and leaves about 173 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,997 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

G___Y G in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position G__R_ G in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _L__Y L in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe GLORY 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.

4.72 Entropy (bits)
173 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 67% of evaluated openers
1.22 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GLORY 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#2,997 Rank among openers
Opening with GLORY solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.64 average. It ranks #2,997 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
958
4 guesses
1,142
5 guesses
183
6 guesses
16
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:
LOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
38%
All gray
18%

Example solver route

R O A T E
G R I N D
G L O R Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GLORY in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

GLORY can come back 99 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

424 answers
320 answers
196 answers
138 answers
134 answers
108 answers
100 answers
74 answers
66 answers
58 answers
48 answers
47 answers
46 answers
42 answers
32 answers
32 answers
30 answers
28 answers
26 answers
23 answers
23 answers
21 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2L1O1R1Y4
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

STANE SAICE SALLE SAINT SPACE SORER

Strategy after playing GLORY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GLORY:

18% chance
Suggested:
STANE
13% chance
Suggested:
SAICE
8% chance
Suggested:
SALLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.9% →
STANE 6.27 bits
13.5% →
SAICE 5.57 bits
8.3% →
SALLE 5.45 bits
5.8% →
SAINT 5.19 bits
5.6% →
SAINT 4.92 bits
4.5% →
SPACE 5.14 bits
4.2% →
SORER 4.44 bits
3.1% →
SPATE 4.60 bits
2.8% →
SAINE 5.07 bits
2.4% →
SHITE 4.82 bits

Research on GLORY

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

Optimal play

Opening with GLORY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,995 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.83 guesses at best and is rank #2,285 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it GLAWREE.

Rhymes with STORY COREY LORRY HOARY FLORY

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, GLORY is a kind of honor or beauty.

Synonyms halo aura

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
GLORY sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 23 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 8, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 44 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (2.7 of 5).

In a sentence

To you be the glory!
© tatoeba.org contributor menaud (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Glory be to the Lord.
© tatoeba.org contributor Amastan (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).