GNASH
Yes, GNASH was the Wordle answer on September 6, 2023 (Wordle #809).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈnæʃ/
- Verb
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To grind (one's teeth) in pain or in anger.
“gnashing your teeth”
- Verb
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To grind between the teeth.
“to gnash the air in fury”
- Noun
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A sudden snapping of the teeth.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English gnasten. Origin unknown; the word is probably either Germanic or onomatopoeic. Compare Old Norse gnastan, Danish gnaske ("munch", "crunch"), German knirschen, German Low German gnirschen, gnörschen (“gnash”), Swedish gnissla (“squeak; gnash”).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it NASH.
Use GNASH in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 91.8% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: September 6, 2023 (#809).
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1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #623
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GNASH appeared in RUB TOGETHER (yellow group).
How GNASH performs as a guess
GNASH is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 78.2% of games, misses completely in 21.8%, and leaves about 195 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,904 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe GNASH 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How GNASH 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches GNASH in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
GNASH can come back 83 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for GNASH; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing GNASH
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to GNASH.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing GNASH:
Research on GNASH
Game-tree analysis and word research for GNASH, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with GNASH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,726 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 GNASH can 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- GNASH 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.
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).