GRAZE
GRAZE is on the solver's possible-answer list and has no appearance in our globally completed Wordle history.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ɡɹeɪz/
- Noun
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The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing.
- Noun
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A light abrasion; a slight scratch.
- Verb
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To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
- Verb
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To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture)
“Cattle graze in the meadows.”
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
How it sounds
One syllable Say it GRAYZ.
Rhymes with PLAYS RAISE PHASE STAYS BLAZE
Related meanings
Synonyms RANGE crop browse grazing rake pasture
In a sentence
Take the sheep out to graze.
I felt his hand graze my hair.
Use GRAZE in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 93.3% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
No completed appearanceNo appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.
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See what the public sample says →GRAZE in Connections
2 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #252
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GRAZE appeared in EAT A LITTLE (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #248
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GRAZE appeared in TOUCH LIGHTLY (yellow group).
How GRAZE performs as a guess
GRAZE 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 82.6% of games, misses completely in 17.4%, and leaves about 159 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,767 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe GRAZE 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How GRAZE 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches GRAZE in 5 guesses. See the trap-family guide for similar endgames.
Feedback distribution
GRAZE can come back 88 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for GRAZE; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing GRAZE
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to GRAZE.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing GRAZE:
Research on GRAZE
Game-tree analysis and word research for GRAZE, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with GRAZE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #8,955 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 GRAZE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.78; proven optimal play reaches 3.77. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.
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
- GRAZE sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (2.4 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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).