Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier for first-turn info

GREGE

GREGE is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.

As an opener, it rules out about 86.3% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Alternative spelling of greige.

Noun

Alternative spelling of greige.

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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

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

How GREGE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GREGE as a guess, but the solver does not list it as a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 68.4% of games, misses completely in 31.6%, and leaves about 325 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,107 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.85 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

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

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

First-turn measures

All four describe GREGE 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.

3.89 Entropy (bits)
325 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 18% of evaluated openers
2.05 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GREGE 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.

3.85 Avg guesses
99.75% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#13,107 Rank among openers
Opening with GREGE left 6 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 3.85 average. It ranks #13,107 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
694
4 guesses
1,225
5 guesses
362
6 guesses
27
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

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
36%
All gray
32%

Feedback distribution

GREGE can come back 69 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

749 answers
243 answers
205 answers
200 answers
184 answers
129 answers
63 answers
55 answers
47 answers
41 answers
40 answers
35 answers
35 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2R1E1G2E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing GREGE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GREGE:

32% chance
Suggested:
SLAIN
10% chance
Suggested:
COAST
9% chance
Suggested:
LEANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.6%
SLAIN 5.81 bits
10.2%
COAST 5.30 bits
8.6%
LEANT 5.13 bits
8.4%
SLANT 5.36 bits
7.8%
SOLAR 4.11 bits
5.4%
COAST 4.61 bits
2.7%
SHALT 4.97 bits
2.3%
SOILY 4.48 bits
2.0%
COATE 3.72 bits
1.7%
COAST 4.34 bits

Research on GREGE

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

Optimal play

Opening with GREGE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.88 guesses and ranks #13,396 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 GREGE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.85, at or below the proven-optimal 3.88, 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 GREEJ. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.