5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

GREYS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of grey

Noun

plural of grey

Noun

Grey trousers and/or jackets worn by prisoners on relatively formal occasions.

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 GREYS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GREYS 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 85.8% of games, misses completely in 14.2%, and leaves about 147 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,191 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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 _R__S R in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

CLOUT ANILE REATE SLANT DAILY CAROL
Words starting with G Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.69 Entropy (bits)
147 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 65% of evaluated openers
1.26 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GREYS 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#8,191 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GREYS ranks #8,191 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
827
4 guesses
1,222
5 guesses
236
6 guesses
20
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ERS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
22%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

80 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

336
282
176
174
148
130
119
97
63
58
55
54
53
52
47
46
42
41
28
25
21
18
18
18
17
17
14
14
13
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GREYS:

14% chance
Suggested:
CLOUT
12% chance
Suggested:
ANILE
7% chance
Suggested:
REATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.2% →
CLOUT 5.87 bits
12.0% →
ANILE 5.33 bits
7.5% →
REATE 4.36 bits
7.4% →
SLANT 5.16 bits
6.3% →
DAILY 4.47 bits
5.5% →
CAROL 5.32 bits
5.0% →
SLANT 4.81 bits
4.1% →
TRAIN 4.28 bits
2.7% →
SAIST 4.10 bits
2.5% →
BOITE 4.00 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2R1E1Y4S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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