GROOM
Yes, GROOM was the Wordle answer on June 4, 2024 (Wordle #1081).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ɡɹuːm//ɡɹʉwm//ɡɹum/
- Noun
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A man who is about to marry.
- Noun
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A person who looks after horses.
- Verb
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To attend to one's appearance and clothing.
- Verb
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To care for (horses or other animals) by brushing and cleaning them.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
1604, short for bridegroom (“husband-to-be”), from Middle English brydgrome, alteration (with intrusive r) of earlier bridegome (“bridegroom”), from Old English brȳdguma (“bridegroom”), from brȳd (“bride”) + guma (“man, hero”). In Middle English, the second element was re-analyzed as or influenced by grom, grome (“attendant”). Guma derives from Proto-Germanic *gumô (“man, person”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰǵʰm̥mō; it is cognate to Icelandic gumi (cf.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it GROOM.
Rhymes with BLOOM BROOM GLOOM PLUME FLUME
Related meanings
Synonyms TRAIN DRESS prepare CURRY do set
In a sentence
Do you know the groom?
You need to groom the horse.
Use GROOM in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 85.2% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: June 4, 2024 (#1081).
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See what the public sample says →How GROOM performs as a guess
GROOM is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 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 354 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
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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.
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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
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:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for GROOM; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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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:
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.
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).
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).