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

GROWN

Yes, GROWN was the Wordle answer on May 17, 2025 (Wordle #1428).

As an opener, it rules out about 89.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɡɹəʊn//ɡɹoʊn//ˈɡɹɐʉn/

Verb

past participle of grow

Adjective

Covered by growth; overgrown.

“What once was a farm was grown with trees.”

Adjective

Of a person: adult.

“grown woman/man/adult”

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: May 17, 2025 (#1428).

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

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How GROWN performs as a guess

GROWN is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,359 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 73.2% of games, misses completely in 26.8%, and leaves about 253 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,501 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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__W_ G in the 1st position and W in the 4th position _R__N R in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

SLATE SALET LIANE CADIE COATE THALE
Words starting with G Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.35 Entropy (bits)
253 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
89.3% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GROWN 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#4,501 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GROWN ranks #4,501 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
903
4 guesses
1,195
5 guesses
197
6 guesses
7

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
NOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
26%
All gray
27%

Example solver route

R O A T E
G R I N D
G R O W N

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GROWN in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

95 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

632
294
189
148
123
98
96
57
51
47
41
36
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25
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22
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GROWN:

27% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
12% chance
Suggested:
SALET
8% chance
Suggested:
LIANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.8% →
SLATE 6.48 bits
12.5% →
SALET 5.42 bits
8.0% →
LIANE 5.21 bits
6.3% →
SALET 4.97 bits
5.2% →
CADIE 5.14 bits
4.2% →
SLATE 4.83 bits
4.1% →
COATE 4.57 bits
2.4% →
THALE 5.13 bits
2.2% →
LAIDE 4.92 bits
2.0% →
TOUSE 4.09 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2R1O1W4N1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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