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GRASP

Yes, GRASP was the Wordle answer on March 10, 2024 (Wordle #995).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɡɹɑːsp//ɡɹæsp//ɡɹasp/

Verb

To grip; to take hold, particularly with the hand.

Verb

To understand.

“I have never been able to grasp the concept of infinity.”

Noun

Grip.

“A vagrant gust of wind snatched the note from my grasp.”

Noun

Understanding.

Alternative forms: graps

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

From Middle English graspen, grapsen, craspen (“to grope; feel around”), from Old English *grǣpsian, from Proto-West Germanic *graipisōn, from Proto-Germanic *graipisōną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to take, seize, rake”), the same ultimate source as grab.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

One syllable Say it GRASP.

Rhymes with CLASP AGASP

Related meanings

Synonyms hold RANGE REACH dig appreciation grip

In a sentence

And do you grasp it now?
© tatoeba.org contributor rul (CC BY 2.0 FR)
There are few who grasp it.
© tatoeba.org contributor anzart (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use GRASP in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.4% of possible answers.

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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: March 10, 2024 (#995).

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How GRASP performs as a guess

GRASP is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 82.0% of games, misses completely in 18.0%, and leaves about 157 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,159 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___P G in the 1st position and P in the 5th position G__S_ G in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _R__P R in the 2nd position and P in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe GRASP 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.

4.87 Entropy (bits)
157 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.4% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GRASP 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
#2,159 Rank among openers
Opening with GRASP 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 #2,159 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
955
4 guesses
1,165
5 guesses
162
6 guesses
12

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ARS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
30%
All gray
18%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S W I N G
G R A S P

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GRASP in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

GRASP can come back 100 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

428 answers
242 answers
216 answers
151 answers
111 answers
89 answers
80 answers
73 answers
70 answers
63 answers
56 answers
51 answers
46 answers
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40 answers
37 answers
34 answers
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27 answers
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18 answers
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15 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2R1A1S1P3
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

TOILE TONEY TUILE TARRE CONTE PINEY

Strategy after playing GRASP

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GRASP:

18% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
10% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
9% chance
Suggested:
TONEY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.0% →
TOILE 6.10 bits
10.2% →
TOILE 5.28 bits
9.1% →
TONEY 5.12 bits
6.3% →
TUILE 5.24 bits
4.7% →
TARRE 4.45 bits
3.7% →
CONTE 4.84 bits
3.4% →
TOILE 4.84 bits
3.1% →
PINEY 4.92 bits
2.9% →
CLOTE 4.59 bits
2.6% →
STREW 4.37 bits

Research on GRASP

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

Optimal play

Opening with GRASP, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,426 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.77 guesses at best and is rank #567 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 3.66, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
GRASP sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 9 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 9, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 52 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with touch (3.9 of 5).

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).