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GRADE

Yes, GRADE has been the Wordle answer on July 4, 2021 (Wordle #15) and March 15, 2026 (Wordle #1730).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɡɹeɪd/[ɡɹeɪd][ɡɹɛjd]

Noun

A rating.

“This fine-grade coin from 1837 is worth a good amount.”

Noun

Performance on a test or other evaluation(s), expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score.

“He got a good grade on the test.”

Verb

To assign scores to the components of an academic test, or to overall academic performance.

Verb

To organize in grades.

“a graded reader”

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French grade (“a grade, degree”), from Latin gradus (“a step, pace, degree”), from Proto-Italic *graðus, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰradʰ-, *gʰredʰ- (“to walk, go”). Doublet of gradus.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

One syllable Say it GRAYD.

Rhymes with TRADE BLADE SHADE EVADE SPADE

Related meanings

Synonyms PLACE ORDER course LEVEL CLASS form

In a sentence

What grade are you in?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I got a good grade.
© tatoeba.org contributor Lebensfreude (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use GRADE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 95.0% of possible answers.

Open Solver with GRADE Open Word Finder

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 2 times

Past Wordle answer: July 4, 2021 (#15); March 15, 2026 (#1730).

See the full page for each puzzle: July 4, 2021 (#15); March 15, 2026 (#1730).

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GRADE in Connections

4 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How GRADE performs as a guess

GRADE 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 85.2% of games, misses completely in 14.8%, and leaves about 119 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,023 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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___E G in the 1st position and E in the 5th position G__D_ G in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _R__E R in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position GR_DE G in the 1st position, R in the 2nd position, D in the 4th position, and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe GRADE 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.

5.26 Entropy (bits)
119 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.0% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GRADE 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#2,023 Rank among openers
Opening with GRADE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.62 average. It ranks #2,023 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
85
3 guesses
956
4 guesses
1,090
5 guesses
208
6 guesses
13

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
38%
All gray
15%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C R I S P
B A D G E
G R A D E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GRADE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

GRADE can come back 122 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

354 answers
195 answers
163 answers
143 answers
123 answers
108 answers
91 answers
79 answers
61 answers
58 answers
56 answers
52 answers
51 answers
50 answers
49 answers
44 answers
40 answers
28 answers
27 answers
27 answers
24 answers
23 answers
21 answers
21 answers
21 answers
18 answers
18 answers
16 answers
14 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2R1A1D2E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

SOILY TALON SLEET SEITY TORUS STALK

Strategy after playing GRADE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GRADE:

15% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
8% chance
Suggested:
TALON
7% chance
Suggested:
SLEET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.8% →
SOILY 5.69 bits
8.2% →
TALON 5.18 bits
6.8% →
SLEET 5.37 bits
6.0% →
SEITY 4.05 bits
5.2% →
SOILY 4.71 bits
4.5% →
TORUS 5.19 bits
3.8% →
STALK 4.53 bits
3.3% →
CAROL 4.58 bits
2.6% →
PRINT 3.98 bits
2.4% →
PALET 4.28 bits

Research on GRADE

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

Optimal play

Opening with GRADE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #1,028 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 GRADE can 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
GRADE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 63 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 A1); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 9, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 55 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.9 of 5).

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).