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

GRIFT

Yes, GRIFT was the Wordle answer on May 25, 2025 (Wordle #1436).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɡɹɪft/

Noun

A confidence game or swindle.

“Hey, what's the grift? What are you trying to pull?”

Verb

To obtain illegally, as by con game.

Verb

To obtain money illegally.

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 25, 2025 (#1436).

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

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How GRIFT performs as a guess

GRIFT 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 76.4% of games, misses completely in 23.6%, and leaves about 211 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,963 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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.

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Useful pattern pages

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

G___T G in the 1st position and T in the 5th position G__F_ G in the 1st position and F in the 4th position _R__T R in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

SLANE SOREL TASTE LIANE CANOE SATEM
Words starting with G Words ending with T

First-turn measures

4.59 Entropy (bits)
211 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 58% of evaluated openers
1.36 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GRIFT 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#2,963 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GRIFT ranks #2,963 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
64
3 guesses
920
4 guesses
1,182
5 guesses
176
6 guesses
10
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:
IRT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
32%
All gray
24%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GRIFT in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

100 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

556
285
179
145
102
97
87
72
63
54
51
44
43
33
31
27
26
24
22
22
21
21
21
20
17
15
14
13
12
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GRIFT:

24% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
12% chance
Suggested:
SOREL
8% chance
Suggested:
TASTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.6% →
SLANE 6.21 bits
12.1% →
SOREL 5.16 bits
7.6% →
TASTE 5.50 bits
6.1% →
LIANE 4.90 bits
4.3% →
CANOE 4.94 bits
4.1% →
SLANE 5.32 bits
3.7% →
SLANE 5.09 bits
3.1% →
SATEM 4.63 bits
2.7% →
ALONE 4.97 bits
2.3% →
SANED 4.26 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2R1I1F4T1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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