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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

GRASS

Yes, GRASS was the Wordle answer on December 17, 2025 (Wordle #1642).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɡɹɑːs/[ɡɹ̠ɑːs][ɡɹ̠äːs]

Noun

Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.

Noun

Any of the various plants that are not in the family Poaceae that resemble grasses.

Verb

To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).

Verb

To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.

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: December 17, 2025 (#1642).

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

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How GRASS performs as a guess

GRASS is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 78.5% of games, misses completely in 21.5%, and leaves about 209 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,303 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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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__S_ G in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _R__S R in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE ROUET TARRE CONTE CLINE STOPE
Words starting with G Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.33 Entropy (bits)
209 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 41% of evaluated openers
1.62 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GRASS 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#10,303 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GRASS ranks #10,303 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
34
3 guesses
781
4 guesses
1,247
5 guesses
272
6 guesses
17
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ARS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
30%
All gray
22%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GRASS in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

71 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

506
277
234
190
130
123
86
82
70
58
57
45
41
36
34
32
24
23
21
19
19
17
16
15
15
14
13
13
12
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GRASS:

21% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
12% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
10% chance
Suggested:
ROUET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.5% →
TOILE 6.08 bits
11.7% →
TOILE 5.24 bits
9.9% →
ROUET 5.00 bits
8.1% →
TOILE 5.22 bits
5.5% →
TARRE 4.43 bits
5.2% →
CONTE 4.88 bits
3.6% →
CLINE 4.80 bits
3.5% →
TOILE 4.81 bits
3.0% →
STOPE 4.33 bits
2.5% →
SALET 4.49 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2R1A1S1S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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