5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

GRIPT

GRIPT is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.

As an opener, it rules out about 92.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of grip

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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

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

How GRIPT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GRIPT as a guess, but the solver does not list it as a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 79.0% of games, misses completely in 21.0%, and leaves about 178 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #430 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 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___T G in the 1st position and T in the 5th position G__P_ G in the 1st position and P in the 4th position _R__T R in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

SLANE SORER HAOLE AISLE CANOE SATEM
Words starting with G Words ending with T

First-turn measures

4.79 Entropy (bits)
178 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 71% of evaluated openers
1.16 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GRIPT 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.

3.58 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#430 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GRIPT ranks #430 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
64
3 guesses
1,025
4 guesses
1,109
5 guesses
148
6 guesses
8
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)
79%
Green tile
33%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

102 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

496
264
164
131
95
93
93
80
73
63
59
46
44
42
28
26
26
25
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23
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GRIPT:

21% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
11% chance
Suggested:
SORER
7% chance
Suggested:
HAOLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.0% →
SLANE 6.18 bits
11.2% →
SORER 5.15 bits
7.0% →
HAOLE 5.53 bits
5.6% →
AISLE 4.92 bits
4.0% →
SLANE 5.67 bits
3.9% →
SLANE 5.28 bits
3.9% →
CANOE 4.86 bits
3.4% →
SLANE 5.04 bits
3.1% →
SATEM 4.59 bits
2.7% →
LUNGE 4.90 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2R1I1P3T1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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