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GROOM

Yes, GROOM was the Wordle answer on June 4, 2024 (Wordle #1081).

As an opener, it rules out about 85.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɡɹuːm//ɡɹʉwm//ɡɹum/

Noun

A man who is about to marry.

Noun

A person who looks after horses.

Verb

To attend to one's appearance and clothing.

Verb

To care for (horses or other animals) by brushing and cleaning them.

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: June 4, 2024 (#1081).

See the full page for that puzzle: June 4, 2024 (#1081).

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

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How GROOM performs as a guess

GROOM 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 66.4% of games, misses completely in 33.6%, and leaves about 352 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,763 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

G___M G in the 1st position and M in the 5th position G__O_ G in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _R__M R in the 2nd position and M in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in GROOM.

First-turn measures

All four describe GROOM 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.

3.93 Entropy (bits)
352 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
85.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 19% of evaluated openers
2.02 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GROOM 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#9,763 Rank among openers
Opening with GROOM left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.76 average. It ranks #9,763 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
761
4 guesses
1,258
5 guesses
266
6 guesses
15
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
OR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
66%
Green tile
27%
All gray
34%

Example solver route

R O A T E
G R I N D
A L B U M
G R O O M

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GROOM in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

GROOM can come back 83 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

798 answers
324 answers
146 answers
146 answers
124 answers
97 answers
86 answers
82 answers
41 answers
40 answers
40 answers
33 answers
31 answers
28 answers
27 answers
26 answers
22 answers
21 answers
19 answers
19 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2R1O1O1M3
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

SLATE SALET LEANT CADET MAILE ALINE

Strategy after playing GROOM

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to GROOM.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GROOM:

34% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
14% chance
Suggested:
SALET
6% chance
Suggested:
LEANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

33.6% →
SLATE 6.38 bits
13.6% →
SALET 5.37 bits
6.1% →
LEANT 4.83 bits
6.1% →
CADET 5.07 bits
5.2% →
MAILE 5.20 bits
4.1% →
ALINE 5.21 bits
3.6% →
SLANT 4.89 bits
3.5% →
COSEY 4.13 bits
1.7% →
CADET 3.57 bits
1.7% →
SALET 4.39 bits

Research on GROOM

Game-tree analysis and word research for GROOM, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with GROOM, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,710 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.92 guesses at best and is rank #4,625 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.76, at or below the proven-optimal 3.80, 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it GROOM.

Rhymes with BLOOM BROOM GLOOM PLUME FLUME

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, GROOM is a kind of man or hand.

Synonyms TRAIN DRESS prepare CURRY do set

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
GROOM sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 4 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.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 8, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 78 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.5 of 5).

In a sentence

Do you know the groom?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
You need to groom the horse.
© tatoeba.org contributor Amastan (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).