5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

GREWS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Proper noun

plural of Grew

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 GREWS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GREWS 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 81.0% of games, misses completely in 19.0%, and leaves about 188 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,336 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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.

Useful pattern pages

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

G___S G in the 1st position and S in the 5th position G__W_ G in the 1st position and W in the 4th position _R__S R in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TALON OLATE SAULT PATEE CAROL SLANT
Words starting with G Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.49 Entropy (bits)
188 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 51% of evaluated openers
1.46 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GREWS 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#8,336 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GREWS ranks #8,336 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
822
4 guesses
1,213
5 guesses
256
6 guesses
12
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ERS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
22%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

79 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

448
294
216
185
163
120
91
66
57
57
50
48
48
39
34
31
29
23
20
19
19
18
18
17
15
15
13
13
12
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GREWS:

19% chance
Suggested:
TALON
12% chance
Suggested:
OLATE
9% chance
Suggested:
SAULT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.0% →
TALON 5.68 bits
12.5% →
OLATE 5.26 bits
9.2% →
SAULT 5.24 bits
7.8% →
PATEE 4.40 bits
6.9% →
CAROL 5.28 bits
5.1% →
SLANT 4.84 bits
3.9% →
DROIT 4.35 bits
2.8% →
LINGO 4.71 bits
2.4% →
STRAP 4.55 bits
2.4% →
CADIE 4.02 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2R1E1W4S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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