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GRAFT

Yes, GRAFT was the Wordle answer on August 29, 2025 (Wordle #1532).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɡɹɑːft//ɡɹæft/

Noun

A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.

Noun

A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.

Verb

To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon.

Verb

To insert scions (grafts) from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.

Alternative forms: graff

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: August 29, 2025 (#1532).

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How GRAFT performs as a guess

GRAFT 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 80.3% of games, misses completely in 19.7%, and leaves about 169 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,205 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___T G in the 1st position and T in the 5th position G__F_ G in the 1st position and F in the 4th position _R__T R in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe GRAFT 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.

4.80 Entropy (bits)
169 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 71% of evaluated openers
1.15 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GRAFT 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
0.67 Spread of game lengths
#2,205 Rank among openers
Opening with GRAFT left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.67 means those games clustered within about 0.67 of a guess of the 3.62 average. It ranks #2,205 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
943
4 guesses
1,180
5 guesses
162
6 guesses
8
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
1 vowels
Common:
ART

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
33%
All gray
20%

Example solver route

R O A T E
G R I S T
G R A F T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GRAFT in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

GRAFT can come back 98 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

468 answers
222 answers
214 answers
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88 answers
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67 answers
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Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2R1A1F4T1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

SOCLE SOLDE SORER HOISE PARER SLIPE

Strategy after playing GRAFT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GRAFT:

20% chance
Suggested:
SOCLE
9% chance
Suggested:
SOLDE
9% chance
Suggested:
SORER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.7% →
SOCLE 5.96 bits
9.4% →
SOLDE 5.19 bits
9.0% →
SORER 5.18 bits
6.1% →
HOISE 5.28 bits
4.6% →
PARER 4.49 bits
4.5% →
SLIPE 5.04 bits
3.7% →
SPICE 4.80 bits
3.5% →
SEINE 4.87 bits
3.3% →
TASTE 4.57 bits
2.8% →
LUNGE 4.73 bits

Research on GRAFT

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

Optimal play

Opening with GRAFT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #3,878 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.80 guesses at best and is rank #1,478 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 3.69, 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 GRAFT.

Rhymes with DRAFT CRAFT SHAFT KRAFT

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, GRAFT is a kind of tissue or felony.

Synonyms transplant bribery

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
GRAFT sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 3 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.0 of 5).

In a sentence

The graft started expanding in size.
© tatoeba.org contributor Amastan (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Some people hate graft because they didn't get their share.
© tatoeba.org contributor Dejo (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).