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GRAVE

Yes, GRAVE was the Wordle answer on November 20, 2025 (Wordle #1615).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɡɹeɪv//ɡɹɑːv/

Noun

An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.

Noun

Any place of interment.

Adjective

Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness.

Adjective

Low in pitch, tone etc.

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: November 20, 2025 (#1615).

See the full page for that puzzle: November 20, 2025 (#1615).

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

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How GRAVE performs as a guess

GRAVE 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 82.7% of games, misses completely in 17.3%, and leaves about 147 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,815 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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__V_ G in the 1st position and V 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 GRAVE.

First-turn measures

All four describe GRAVE 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.

4.93 Entropy (bits)
147 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 80% of evaluated openers
1.02 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GRAVE 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#7,815 Rank among openers
Opening with GRAVE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.72 average. It ranks #7,815 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
74
3 guesses
818
4 guesses
1,176
5 guesses
264
6 guesses
20
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)
83%
Green tile
37%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GRAVE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

GRAVE can come back 106 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

410 answers
208 answers
195 answers
145 answers
126 answers
116 answers
98 answers
84 answers
76 answers
72 answers
56 answers
52 answers
49 answers
38 answers
36 answers
35 answers
32 answers
31 answers
30 answers
26 answers
25 answers
23 answers
22 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2R1A1V4E1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

SOILY NATAL SLEET SEITY SLICE TORUS

Strategy after playing GRAVE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GRAVE:

17% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
9% chance
Suggested:
NATAL
8% chance
Suggested:
SLEET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.3% →
SOILY 5.66 bits
8.8% →
NATAL 5.06 bits
8.2% →
SLEET 5.40 bits
6.1% →
SEITY 3.98 bits
5.3% →
SLICE 4.54 bits
4.9% →
TORUS 5.10 bits
4.1% →
STALK 4.51 bits
3.5% →
MARRY 4.24 bits
3.2% →
PRINT 3.96 bits
3.0% →
STEAL 4.42 bits

Research on GRAVE

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

Optimal play

Opening with GRAVE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,425 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 GRAVE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.72, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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 GRAYV.

Rhymes with BRAVE SLAVE SHAVE CRAVE WAIVE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, GRAVE is a kind of death or place.

Synonyms serious HEAVY dangerous severe scratch SOBER

Opposites unimportant frivolous

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
GRAVE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 20 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 8, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 73 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.5 of 5).

In a sentence

This is a grave matter.
© tatoeba.org contributor CM (CC BY 2.0 FR)
This is a grave mistake.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (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).