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GREEN

Yes, GREEN was the Wordle answer on November 13, 2023 (Wordle #877).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹiːn/[ˈɡɹʷɪi̯n]/ˈɡɹin/

Noun

The color of grass and leaves; a primary additive color midway between yellow and blue which is evoked by light between roughly 495–570 nm.

Noun

A member of a green party; an environmentalist.

Adjective

Of a green hue.

“He is wearing a green shirt.”

Adjective

Sickly, unwell.

“Sally looks pretty green—is she going to be sick?”

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 13, 2023 (#877).

See the full page for that puzzle: November 13, 2023 (#877).

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

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How GREEN performs as a guess

GREEN 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 76.9% of games, misses completely in 23.1%, and leaves about 204 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,337 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.
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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

G___N G in the 1st position and N in the 5th position G__E_ G in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _R__N R in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe GREEN 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.

4.68 Entropy (bits)
204 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 64% of evaluated openers
1.26 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GREEN 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#7,337 Rank among openers
Opening with GREEN 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 3.71 average. It ranks #7,337 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
63
3 guesses
836
4 guesses
1,194
5 guesses
239
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ENR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
35%
All gray
23%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E D
P E N C E
G R E E N

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GREEN in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

GREEN can come back 102 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

548 answers
248 answers
207 answers
165 answers
101 answers
99 answers
95 answers
59 answers
48 answers
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36 answers
34 answers
32 answers
27 answers
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14 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2R1E1E1N1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

SAULT SLATE COAST SAINT ROAST REARM

Strategy after playing GREEN

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GREEN:

23% chance
Suggested:
SAULT
10% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
9% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.1% →
SAULT 5.91 bits
10.4% →
SLATE 5.68 bits
8.7% →
COAST 5.36 bits
7.0% →
SAINT 5.14 bits
4.3% →
COAST 4.78 bits
4.2% →
ROAST 3.51 bits
4.0% →
REARM 4.41 bits
2.5% →
ANISE 4.41 bits
2.0% →
LAIDE 3.99 bits
2.0% →
SHALT 4.78 bits

Research on GREEN

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

Optimal play

Opening with GREEN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,902 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 GREEN can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, at or below the proven-optimal 3.71, 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 GREEN.

Rhymes with CLEAN SCENE QUEEN SHEEN TWEEN

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, GREEN is a kind of color or tract.

Synonyms common park k jet commons greens

Opposites ripe well bad sophisticated

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
GREEN sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 135 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 7, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 66 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.5 of 5).

In a sentence

Do you have it in green?
© tatoeba.org contributor DJ_Saidez (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I want a green one.
© 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).