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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).

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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 2,374 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 91 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #525 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in SCALE.

First-turn measures

All four describe SCALE 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.

5.56 Entropy (bits)
91 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 opening guess: previous 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#525 Rank among openers
Opening with SCALE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.58 average. It 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 (3.46 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

SCALE can come back 131 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

266 answers
208 answers
156 answers
108 answers
89 answers
85 answers
73 answers
71 answers
68 answers
64 answers
63 answers
48 answers
48 answers
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42 answers
37 answers
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28 answers
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25 answers
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22 answers
20 answers

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.

Try next

DONUT TENOR RAINY GOIER CHURN SNOUT

Strategy after playing SCALE

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to SCALE.

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
8.8% →
TENOR 5.16 bits
6.6% →
RAINY 4.92 bits
4.5% →
GOIER 4.43 bits
3.7% →
CHURN 4.87 bits
3.6% →
SNOUT 4.53 bits
3.1% →
TAKER 4.22 bits
3.0% →
PILOT 4.55 bits
2.9% →
REVEL 4.14 bits
2.7% →
TONAL 4.41 bits

Research on SCALE

Game-tree analysis and word research for SCALE, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with SCALE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.61 guesses and ranks #253 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.73 guesses at best and is rank #138 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.58, at or below the proven-optimal 3.61, 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it SKAYL.

Rhymes with EMAIL TRAIL WHALE SHALE SNAIL

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SCALE is a kind of standard or relation.

Synonyms PLATE SHELL

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SCALE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 68 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A2); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 8, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 65 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.5 of 5).

In a sentence

Do you have a scale?
© tatoeba.org contributor vxern (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Please put it on the scale.
© tatoeba.org contributor CM (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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).