5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

GRIEF

Yes, GRIEF was the Wordle answer on May 19, 2023 (Wordle #699).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɡɹiːf/

Noun

Suffering, hardship.

“The neighbour's teenagers give me grief every time they see me.”

Noun

Emotional pain, generally arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, bereavement, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness.

“She was worn out from so much grief.”

Verb

To deliberately harass and annoy or cause grief to other players of a game in order to interfere with their enjoyment of it; especially, to do this as one’s primary activity in the game, and especially by exploiting game mechanics without using cheats to do so, often through acts of destruction or vandalism.

Alternative forms: greefe, griefe

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: May 19, 2023 (#699).

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

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How GRIEF performs as a guess

GRIEF is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 81.8% of games, misses completely in 18.2%, and leaves about 168 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,491 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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___F G in the 1st position and F in the 5th position G__E_ G in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _R__F R in the 2nd position and F in the 5th position

Try next

SAULT SLATE COAST SATIN REAST ROAST
Words starting with G Words ending with F

First-turn measures

4.81 Entropy (bits)
168 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 72% of evaluated openers
1.14 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GRIEF 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#4,491 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GRIEF ranks #4,491 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
70
3 guesses
890
4 guesses
1,170
5 guesses
208
6 guesses
14
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
2 vowels
Common:
EIR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
36%
All gray
18%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E D
B R I E F
G R I E F

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GRIEF in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

108 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

430
302
171
158
112
105
100
78
74
54
49
45
40
40
38
34
31
25
25
22
21
18
17
16
16
15
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14
11
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GRIEF:

18% chance
Suggested:
SAULT
13% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
7% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.2% →
SAULT 5.92 bits
12.8% →
SLATE 5.84 bits
7.3% →
COAST 5.33 bits
6.7% →
SATIN 5.07 bits
4.7% →
REAST 4.63 bits
4.5% →
ROAST 3.64 bits
4.2% →
SLANT 4.64 bits
3.3% →
COAST 4.47 bits
3.1% →
SLANT 4.99 bits
2.3% →
COAST 4.43 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2R1I1E1F4
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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