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GREAT

Yes, GREAT was the Wordle answer on November 2, 2021 (Wordle #136).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹeɪt//ˈɡɹɛjt//ˈɡɹæɪt/

Adjective

Taking much space; large.

Adjective

Very good; excellent; wonderful; fantastic.

“Dinner was great.”

Interjection

Expression of gladness and content about something.

“Great! Thanks for the wonderful work.”

Interjection

A sarcastic inversion thereof.

“Oh, great! I just dumped all 500 sheets of the manuscript all over and now I have to put them back in order.”

Alternative forms: geet, gert, girt, gurt

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 2, 2021 (#136).

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

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How GREAT performs as a guess

GREAT 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 88.0% of games, misses completely in 12.0%, and leaves about 100 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,445 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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___T G in the 1st position and T in the 5th position G__A_ G in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _R__T R in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe GREAT 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.

5.45 Entropy (bits)
100 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 98% of evaluated openers
0.50 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GREAT 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#1,445 Rank among openers
Opening with GREAT left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.61 average. It ranks #1,445 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
82
3 guesses
985
4 guesses
1,069
5 guesses
200
6 guesses
16
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:
AERT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
33%
All gray
12%

Example solver route

R O A T E
T A E L S
A V E R T
G R E A T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GREAT in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

GREAT can come back 126 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

285 answers
185 answers
178 answers
152 answers
115 answers
87 answers
77 answers
75 answers
63 answers
57 answers
51 answers
50 answers
49 answers
47 answers
39 answers
39 answers
38 answers
36 answers
34 answers
32 answers
32 answers
27 answers
27 answers
23 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
20 answers
16 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2R1E1A1T1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Try next

SOILY MOILE SLAIN SEINE SLANE SOUTH

Strategy after playing GREAT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GREAT:

12% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
8% chance
Suggested:
MOILE
7% chance
Suggested:
SLAIN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.0% →
SOILY 5.71 bits
7.8% →
MOILE 5.26 bits
7.5% →
SLAIN 5.12 bits
6.4% →
SEINE 4.44 bits
4.8% →
SLANE 4.64 bits
3.7% →
SOUTH 4.80 bits
3.2% →
CURRY 4.82 bits
3.2% →
HOARD 4.16 bits
2.7% →
TOILE 4.55 bits
2.4% →
HASTY 4.09 bits

Research on GREAT

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

Optimal play

Opening with GREAT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.64 guesses and ranks #1,310 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 GREAT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.61, at or below the proven-optimal 3.64, 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 GRAYT.

Rhymes with STATE EIGHT PLATE SLATE SKATE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, GREAT is a kind of success.

Synonyms old big LARGE capital HEAVY outstanding

Opposites little bad SMALL ordinary

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
GREAT sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 759 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A1); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 5, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 31 of 100. Raters found it difficult to picture.

In a sentence

That is great for me.
© tatoeba.org contributor Danika_Dakika (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I had a great time.
© tatoeba.org contributor Spamster (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).