GRILL
Yes, GRILL was the Wordle answer on August 19, 2026 (Wordle #1887).
As an opener, it rules out about 90.0% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ɡɹɪl/
- Noun
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A grating; a grid of wire or a sheet of material with a pattern of holes or slots, usually used to protect something while allowing the passage of air and liquids. Typical uses: to allow air through a fan while preventing fingers or objects from passing; to allow people to talk to somebody, while preventing attack.
- Noun
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The criss-cross pieces that separate panes of glass in a window.
- Verb
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To cook (food) on a grill; to barbecue.
“Why don't we get together Saturday and grill some burgers?”
- Verb
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To cook food under the element of a stove or only under the top element of an oven – (US) broil, (cooking) salamander.
Alternative forms: grille, girl
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Wordle status
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Playable guess
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Possible answer
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Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: August 19, 2026 (#1887).
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GRILL is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 76.5% of games, misses completely in 23.5%, and leaves about 237 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,883 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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First-turn measures
All four describe GRILL 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How GRILL 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches GRILL in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
GRILL can come back 79 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for GRILL; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Strategy after playing GRILL
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to GRILL.
Quick reference
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Research on GRILL
Game-tree analysis and word research for GRILL, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with GRILL, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses and ranks #10,139 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.93 guesses at best and is rank #4,873 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.72, at or below the proven-optimal 3.79, 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.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, GRILL is a kind of restaurant or frame.
Synonyms grille
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- GRILL sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 7 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Learner level
- Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.5 of 5).
In a sentence
Where did you grill them?
We need to buy a grill.
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).