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GRIME

Yes, GRIME was the Wordle answer on December 3, 2021 (Wordle #167).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɡɹaɪm/

Noun

Dirt, grease, soot, etc. that is ingrained and difficult to remove.

“Underneath all that soot, dirt and grime is the true beauty of the church in soft shades of sandstone.”

Noun

A genre of urban music that emerged in London, England, in the early 2000s, primarily a development of UK garage, dancehall, and hip hop.

Verb

To begrime; to cake with dirt.

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: December 3, 2021 (#167).

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

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How GRIME performs as a guess

GRIME 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 83.2% of games, misses completely in 16.8%, and leaves about 144 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,719 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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___E G in the 1st position and E in the 5th position G__M_ G in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _R__E R in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SLANT LEAST COAST SATIN SAUCY TONAL
Words starting with G Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.00 Entropy (bits)
144 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 83% of evaluated openers
0.95 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GRIME 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#1,719 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GRIME ranks #1,719 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
73
3 guesses
959
4 guesses
1,131
5 guesses
176
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
2 vowels
Common:
EIR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
37%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

R O A T E
P R I S M
C R I M E
G R I M E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GRIME in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

112 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

397
224
165
152
151
148
80
76
58
46
39
37
36
35
33
33
32
32
31
27
26
25
24
23
21
21
20
19
16
15

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GRIME:

17% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
9% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
7% chance
Suggested:
LEAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.8% →
SLANT 5.97 bits
9.5% →
SLANT 5.52 bits
7.0% →
LEAST 4.33 bits
6.4% →
COAST 5.36 bits
6.4% →
SLANT 5.44 bits
6.3% →
SATIN 4.95 bits
3.4% →
SLANT 4.33 bits
3.2% →
SLANT 5.04 bits
2.5% →
SAUCY 4.79 bits
2.0% →
COAST 4.36 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2R1I1M3E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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