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GROAN

Yes, GROAN was the Wordle answer on August 6, 2025 (Wordle #1509).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹəʊ̯n//ˈɡɹɵ̞ʊ̯n//ˈɡɹoʊ̯n/

Noun

A low, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief.

“let out a groan”

Noun

A low, guttural sound uttered in frustration, disapproval, or ecstasy.

Verb

To make a groan.

“We groaned at his awful jokes.”

Verb

To seemingly creak under the strain of being heavily laden.

Alternative forms: groane, grane, grain, graen

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: August 6, 2025 (#1509).

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

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How GROAN performs as a guess

GROAN 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 85.2% of games, misses completely in 14.8%, and leaves about 134 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,439 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___N G in the 1st position and N in the 5th position G__A_ G in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _R__N R in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

STILE SLATE SLEET SEITY SATED TUILE
Words starting with G Words ending with N

First-turn measures

5.10 Entropy (bits)
134 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 88% of evaluated openers
0.85 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GROAN 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
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#1,439 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GROAN ranks #1,439 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
71
3 guesses
976
4 guesses
1,118
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:
ANOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
32%
All gray
15%

Example solver route

R O A T E
A R M O R
A C O N E
G R O A N

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GROAN in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

119 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

348
286
169
119
119
112
89
80
80
72
55
43
40
37
35
34
31
30
24
23
22
19
19
17
17
16
16
15
15
15

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GROAN:

15% chance
Suggested:
STILE
12% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
7% chance
Suggested:
SLEET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.8% →
STILE 6.17 bits
12.1% →
SLATE 5.74 bits
7.2% →
SLEET 5.10 bits
5.0% →
SEITY 5.09 bits
5.0% →
SATED 4.53 bits
4.7% →
TUILE 4.87 bits
3.8% →
STILE 4.57 bits
3.4% →
TOWER 4.29 bits
3.4% →
SPICE 4.93 bits
3.1% →
CASTE 4.29 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2R1O1A1N1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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