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SCALE

Yes, SCALE was the Wordle answer on August 3, 2024 (Wordle #1141).

As an opener, it rules out about 96.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /skeɪl/[skeɪ̯(ə)ɫ]/skæɪl/

Noun

An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement; means of assigning a magnitude.

“Please rate your experience on a scale from 1 to 10.”

Noun

Size; scope.

“There are some who question the scale of our ambitions.”

Verb

To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product.

“We should scale that up by a factor of 10.”

Verb

To climb to the top of.

“Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest.”

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: August 3, 2024 (#1141).

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

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How SCALE performs as a guess

SCALE 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 88.8% of games, misses completely in 11.2%, and leaves about 90 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #525 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 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___E S in the 1st position and E in the 5th position S__L_ S in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _C__E C in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

DONUT TENOR RAINY GOIER CHURN SNOUT
Words starting with S Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.56 Entropy (bits)
90 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
96.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 99% of evaluated openers
0.39 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SCALE 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.

3.58 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#525 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SCALE ranks #525 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
102
3 guesses
956
4 guesses
1,122
5 guesses
158
6 guesses
14
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
2 vowels
Common:
AELS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
42%
All gray
11%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L U M P
S C A L E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SCALE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

131 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

264
206
156
106
89
84
72
71
66
63
63
48
47
44
44
42
37
34
33
32
31
31
30
28
27
25
25
24
22
20

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SCALE:

11% chance
Suggested:
DONUT
9% chance
Suggested:
TENOR
7% chance
Suggested:
RAINY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.2% →
DONUT 5.71 bits
8.7% →
TENOR 5.14 bits
6.6% →
RAINY 4.92 bits
4.5% →
GOIER 4.38 bits
3.8% →
CHURN 4.87 bits
3.6% →
SNOUT 4.49 bits
3.1% →
TAKER 4.20 bits
3.0% →
PILOT 4.55 bits
2.8% →
REVEL 4.11 bits
2.7% →
TONAL 4.43 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1C3A1L1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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