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GLYPH

Yes, GLYPH was the Wordle answer on November 18, 2022 (Wordle #517).

As an opener, it rules out about 86.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɡlɪf/

Noun

A figure carved in relief or incised, especially representing a sound, word, or idea.

Noun

Any non-verbal symbol that imparts information.

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: November 18, 2022 (#517).

See the full page for that puzzle: November 18, 2022 (#517).

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

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How GLYPH performs as a guess

GLYPH 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 67.5% of games, misses completely in 32.5%, and leaves about 329 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,237 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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___H G in the 1st position and H in the 5th position G__P_ G in the 1st position and P in the 4th position _L__H L in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe GLYPH 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.

3.93 Entropy (bits)
329 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
86.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 19% of evaluated openers
2.02 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GLYPH 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#8,237 Rank among openers
Opening with GLYPH solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.73 average. It ranks #8,237 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
801
4 guesses
1,285
5 guesses
209
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
0 vowels
Common:
L

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
21%
All gray
32%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
G L Y P H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GLYPH in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

GLYPH can come back 76 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

772 answers
244 answers
184 answers
153 answers
141 answers
125 answers
100 answers
84 answers
66 answers
62 answers
39 answers
31 answers
31 answers
27 answers
25 answers
23 answers
18 answers
17 answers
14 answers
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11 answers
10 answers
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9 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2L1Y4P3H4
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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

Try next

IRATE OATER RANSE SAINE STARE BRACE

Strategy after playing GLYPH

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GLYPH:

33% chance
Suggested:
IRATE
10% chance
Suggested:
OATER
8% chance
Suggested:
RANSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.5% →
IRATE 6.08 bits
10.3% →
OATER 5.32 bits
7.8% →
RANSE 4.90 bits
6.4% →
SAINE 5.46 bits
5.9% →
STARE 5.76 bits
5.3% →
BRACE 4.98 bits
4.2% →
RAINE 5.45 bits
3.5% →
ROATE 4.76 bits
2.8% →
SALLE 4.30 bits
2.6% →
IRONE 5.06 bits

Research on GLYPH

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

Optimal play

Opening with GLYPH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.78 guesses and ranks #9,597 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.89 guesses at best and is rank #3,942 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.73, at or below the proven-optimal 3.78, 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 GLIHF. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, GLYPH is a kind of carving.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
GLYPH sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

In a sentence

This Mayan glyph is yet to be deciphered.
© tatoeba.org contributor araneo (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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).