5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

GRAAL

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Obsolete form of grail.

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 GRAAL performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GRAAL 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 78.6% of games, misses completely in 21.4%, and leaves about 199 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,502 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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.

Useful pattern pages

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

G___L G in the 1st position and L in the 5th position G__A_ G in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _R__L R in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

Try next

TOISE SORER BIOSE CASTE CONTE MATEY
Words starting with G Words ending with L

First-turn measures

4.54 Entropy (bits)
199 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 55% of evaluated openers
1.40 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GRAAL 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
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#8,502 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GRAAL ranks #8,502 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
823
4 guesses
1,201
5 guesses
248
6 guesses
25
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ALR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
34%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

94 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

505
278
212
175
132
92
91
72
68
62
49
44
40
39
28
27
27
22
21
21
21
19
16
16
15
14
14
14
10
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GRAAL:

21% chance
Suggested:
TOISE
12% chance
Suggested:
SORER
9% chance
Suggested:
BIOSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.4% →
TOISE 6.07 bits
11.8% →
SORER 5.29 bits
9.0% →
BIOSE 5.11 bits
7.4% →
CASTE 5.10 bits
5.6% →
CONTE 4.90 bits
3.9% →
MATEY 4.32 bits
3.9% →
SHITE 4.93 bits
3.1% →
NOISE 4.68 bits
2.9% →
SALLE 4.55 bits
2.6% →
SLICE 4.31 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2R1A1A1L1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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