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

GRAPY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.2% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Alternative form of grapey.

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 GRAPY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GRAPY 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 79.6% of games, misses completely in 20.4%, and leaves about 186 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,305 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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 GRAPY 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.

4.62 Entropy (bits)
186 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 60% of evaluated openers
1.32 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GRAPY 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#4,305 Rank among openers
Opening with GRAPY solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.66 average. It ranks #4,305 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
56
3 guesses
898
4 guesses
1,204
5 guesses
186
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:
AR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
39%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

GRAPY can come back 94 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

484 answers
247 answers
241 answers
132 answers
127 answers
106 answers
98 answers
97 answers
79 answers
56 answers
45 answers
42 answers
40 answers
36 answers
31 answers
30 answers
30 answers
29 answers
27 answers
26 answers
22 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2R1A1P3Y4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Strategy after playing GRAPY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GRAPY:

20% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
10% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
10% chance
Suggested:
TOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.4%
TOILE 6.18 bits
10.4%
TOILE 5.29 bits
10.2%
TOISE 5.32 bits
5.6%
SIDLE 4.70 bits
5.3%
STILE 5.22 bits
4.5%
CATER 4.58 bits
4.1%
CONTE 4.85 bits
4.1%
STILE 5.32 bits
3.3%
TOILE 4.85 bits
2.4%
SLANT 3.67 bits

Research on GRAPY

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

Optimal play

Opening with GRAPY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,702 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.83 guesses at best and is rank #2,295 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.71, 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 GRAYPEE. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

Synonyms TASTY

Opposites tasteless

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).