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SCALD

Yes, SCALD was the Wordle answer on September 29, 2022 (Wordle #467).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /skɔld//skɑld//skɔːld/

Verb

To burn with hot liquid.

“to scald the hand”

Verb

To heat almost to boiling.

“Scald the milk until little bubbles form.”

Noun

A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by hot liquid or steam.

Noun

A paste, made by mixing flour with hot or boiling water (causing starches in it to gelatinize and hold more water) and allowing that mixture to sit and cool, which is added to bread dough to produce a softer bread that takes longer to stale.

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: September 29, 2022 (#467).

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

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How SCALD performs as a guess

SCALD 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 81.8% of games, misses completely in 18.2%, and leaves about 148 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #594 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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.

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Useful pattern pages

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

S___D S in the 1st position and D in the 5th position S__L_ S in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _C__D C in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

TONER RIONE TRINE RUOTE RONTE CARET
Words starting with S Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.90 Entropy (bits)
148 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 78% of evaluated openers
1.04 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SCALD 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.65 Volatility
#594 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SCALD ranks #594 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
1,017
4 guesses
1,142
5 guesses
131
6 guesses
10
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
1 vowels
Common:
ALS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
34%
All gray
18%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I C K
A D A P T
S C A L D

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SCALD in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

94 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

428
205
145
140
134
117
110
103
62
62
53
43
41
41
40
39
38
37
31
27
27
23
21
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18
18
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15
15

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SCALD:

18% chance
Suggested:
TONER
9% chance
Suggested:
TONER
6% chance
Suggested:
RIONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.2% →
TONER 6.19 bits
8.7% →
TONER 5.40 bits
6.1% →
RIONE 5.37 bits
5.9% →
TRINE 5.22 bits
5.7% →
RIONE 4.97 bits
5.0% →
RUOTE 5.57 bits
4.7% →
RIONE 5.41 bits
4.4% →
RONTE 4.68 bits
2.6% →
TRINE 4.89 bits
2.6% →
CARET 4.52 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1C3A1L1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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