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

GRIPE

Yes, GRIPE was the Wordle answer on December 23, 2021 (Wordle #187).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɡɹaɪp/

Verb

To complain; to whine.

Verb

To annoy or bother.

“What's griping you?”

Noun

A complaint, often a petty or trivial one.

Noun

A wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems.

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 23, 2021 (#187).

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

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How GRIPE performs as a guess

GRIPE 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 83.3% of games, misses completely in 16.7%, and leaves about 140 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,096 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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__P_ G in the 1st position and P in the 4th position _R__E R in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

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

First-turn measures

5.05 Entropy (bits)
140 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 86% of evaluated openers
0.90 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GRIPE 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#1,096 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GRIPE ranks #1,096 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
67
3 guesses
992
4 guesses
1,114
5 guesses
167
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
G R I P E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GRIPE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

113 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

394
215
162
162
144
141
77
75
68
41
39
38
38
37
36
32
31
30
29
25
25
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24
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22
19
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17
16

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GRIPE:

17% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
9% chance
Suggested:
SALET
7% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.7% →
SLANT 5.90 bits
9.1% →
SALET 5.23 bits
6.9% →
COAST 5.30 bits
6.9% →
LEAST 4.31 bits
6.1% →
SLANT 5.36 bits
6.0% →
SATIN 5.04 bits
3.3% →
SLANT 5.05 bits
3.2% →
COAST 4.65 bits
2.9% →
SLANT 5.00 bits
1.7% →
COAST 4.41 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2R1I1P3E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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