GRACE
Yes, GRACE was the Wordle answer on December 24, 2023 (Wordle #918).
As an opener, it rules out about 95.6% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ɡɹeɪs/
- Noun
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Charming, pleasing qualities.
“The Princess brought grace to an otherwise dull and boring party.”
- Noun
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A short prayer of thanks before or after a meal.
“It has become less common to say grace before having dinner.”
- Verb
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To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify.
“He graced the room with his presence.”
- Verb
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To dignify or raise by an act of favour; to honour.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Wordle status
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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: December 24, 2023 (#918).
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See what the public sample says →How GRACE performs as a guess
GRACE 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 86.9% of games, misses completely in 13.1%, and leaves about 104 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,768 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe GRACE 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 GRACE 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 GRACE in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
GRACE can come back 116 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 GRACE; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing GRACE
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to GRACE.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing GRACE:
Research on GRACE
Game-tree analysis and word research for GRACE, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with GRACE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #985 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.76 guesses at best and is rank #549 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.63, 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.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, GRACE is a kind of god or state.
Synonyms deck blessing thanksgiving goodwill decorate ornament
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- GRACE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 36 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- Learner level
- Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A2); among the first words English learners study.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 8, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 39 of 100. Raters found it difficult to picture.
In a sentence
First, we have to say grace.
Is something the matter, Your Grace?
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).