Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

GRANA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.7% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of granum

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 GRANA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GRANA 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 76.8% of games, misses completely in 23.2%, and leaves about 220 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,653 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe GRANA 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.

4.42 Entropy (bits)
220 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 47% of evaluated openers
1.52 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GRANA 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#7,653 Rank among openers
Opening with GRANA left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.71 average. It ranks #7,653 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
840
4 guesses
1,209
5 guesses
230
6 guesses
21
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ANR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
32%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

GRANA can come back 91 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

551 answers
272 answers
226 answers
158 answers
129 answers
121 answers
117 answers
64 answers
64 answers
51 answers
47 answers
43 answers
38 answers
38 answers
25 answers
23 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2R1A1N1A1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing GRANA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GRANA:

23% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
11% chance
Suggested:
SOREL
10% chance
Suggested:
SALET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.2%
TOILE 6.14 bits
11.5%
SOREL 5.12 bits
9.5%
SALET 5.49 bits
6.7%
TOILE 5.17 bits
5.4%
STILE 5.17 bits
5.1%
SPICE 4.87 bits
4.9%
PARER 4.46 bits
2.7%
TOUSE 4.60 bits
2.7%
LANCE 4.48 bits
2.1%
TUILE 4.45 bits

Research on GRANA

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

Optimal play

Opening with GRANA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #9,038 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 GRANA can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, at or below the proven-optimal 3.77, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it GRANUH.

Rhymes with DIANA MANNA NANNA CHANA

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
GRANA sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

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).