Decided not to do a Grist take on Wordle for that reason. But Happy Gristmas works! Grist comes from Grid + list.

Most users will assume it’s a reference to the common English word…

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grist

It's funnier for Magic: The Gathering players. Seeing a sentence like "grist employee" is hilarious. See: https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Grist

i wouldn't be mad about the name either. it doesn't really roll of the tongue and i can see it being misheard easily when using it in conversation.

something like gridbase, gridrow, gridtable, gridlist, would have been better i think, even though they are very generic sounding

I'm not mad about the name. It's just an ugly one.