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GRAPE

Yes, GRAPE was the Wordle answer on July 26, 2026 (Wordle #1863).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɡɹeɪp//ɡɹæɪp//ɡɹep/

Noun

A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on female vines of most species of genus Vitis and the self-fertile plants of species Vitis vinifera.

“Grapes give us whole-fruit snacks, grape juice, raisins, wine, and more.”

Noun

Any woody vine of genus Vitis that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine.

“wild grape covering the back slope”

Adjective

Containing grapes or having a grape flavor.

Adjective

Of a dark purplish red colour.

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: July 26, 2026 (#1863).

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The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How GRAPE performs as a guess

GRAPE 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 85.7% of games, misses completely in 14.3%, and leaves about 117 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,814 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__P_ G in the 1st position and P in the 4th position _R__E R in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe GRAPE 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.

5.24 Entropy (bits)
117 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 93% of evaluated openers
0.70 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GRAPE 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
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#1,814 Rank among openers
Opening with GRAPE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.62 average. It ranks #1,814 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
73
3 guesses
965
4 guesses
1,118
5 guesses
182
6 guesses
14
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
2 vowels
Common:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
38%
All gray
14%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GRAPE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

GRAPE can come back 114 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

339 answers
198 answers
174 answers
146 answers
115 answers
110 answers
79 answers
78 answers
66 answers
63 answers
58 answers
55 answers
50 answers
45 answers
39 answers
36 answers
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33 answers
28 answers
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26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
22 answers
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19 answers
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18 answers
18 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2R1A1P3E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

SOILY TALON INLET SEITY COURT CLASH

Strategy after playing GRAPE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GRAPE:

14% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
8% chance
Suggested:
TALON
7% chance
Suggested:
INLET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.3% →
SOILY 5.64 bits
8.3% →
TALON 5.19 bits
7.3% →
INLET 5.10 bits
6.1% →
SEITY 3.97 bits
4.8% →
SOILY 4.73 bits
4.6% →
COURT 4.98 bits
3.3% →
CLASH 4.65 bits
3.3% →
CAROL 4.51 bits
2.8% →
TULIP 4.82 bits
2.7% →
SLEET 4.39 bits

Research on GRAPE

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

Optimal play

Opening with GRAPE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,474 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 GRAPE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, 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 GRAYP.

Rhymes with SHAPE CREPE DRAPE SCAPE AGAPE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, GRAPE is a kind of produce or vine.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
GRAPE sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 5 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
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 4, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 95 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with taste (4.4 of 5).

In a sentence

I asked for grape juice.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Wine is made from grape juice.
© tatoeba.org contributor Eldad (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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).