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

GRANS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɡɹænz/

Noun

plural of gran

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 GRANS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GRANS 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 85.4% of games, misses completely in 14.6%, and leaves about 131 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,438 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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.
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Useful pattern pages

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

G___S G in the 1st position and S in the 5th position G__N_ G in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _R__S R in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe GRANS 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.

5.02 Entropy (bits)
131 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 84% of evaluated openers
0.93 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GRANS 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#1,438 Rank among openers
Opening with GRANS left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.61 average. It ranks #1,438 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
62
3 guesses
989
4 guesses
1,118
5 guesses
173
6 guesses
10
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:
ANRS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
31%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

GRANS can come back 105 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

346 answers
198 answers
195 answers
192 answers
125 answers
115 answers
100 answers
73 answers
71 answers
68 answers
65 answers
64 answers
47 answers
40 answers
34 answers
33 answers
32 answers
31 answers
27 answers
24 answers
22 answers
22 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2R1A1N1S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

TOILE CLOTE ROUET TARRE PORTE THALE

Strategy after playing GRANS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GRANS:

15% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
8% chance
Suggested:
CLOTE
8% chance
Suggested:
ROUET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.6% →
TOILE 6.15 bits
8.3% →
CLOTE 5.42 bits
8.2% →
ROUET 4.98 bits
8.1% →
TOILE 5.51 bits
5.3% →
TOILE 5.07 bits
4.8% →
TARRE 4.55 bits
4.2% →
CLOTE 4.84 bits
3.1% →
PORTE 4.72 bits
3.0% →
THALE 4.38 bits
2.9% →
CLOTE 4.75 bits

Research on GRANS

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

Optimal play

Opening with GRANS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,864 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 GRANS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.61, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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 GRANZ. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, GRANS is a kind of root.

Synonyms grandmother grandma granny nan

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
GRANS 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), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).