SCAMP
SCAMP is on the solver's possible-answer list and has no appearance in our globally completed Wordle history.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈskæmp//ˈskeə̯mp//ˈskɛə̯mp/
- Noun
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A rascal, swindler, or rogue; a ne'er-do-well.
- Noun
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A mischievous person, especially a playful, impish youngster.
“My nephew is a little scamp who likes to leave lighted firecrackers under the lawnchairs of his dozing elders.”
- Verb
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To skimp; to do something in a skimpy or slipshod fashion.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
Perhaps related to sense 1, but influenced by the later attested skimp; however, compare Icelandic skamta (“to dole out, to stint”), which is related to skammur (“short”).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
Related meanings
Synonyms monkey imp rascal
In a sentence
Tom was a scamp in his youth.
Mary was a scamp in her youth.
Use SCAMP in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 90.2% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
No completed appearanceNo appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.
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See what the public sample says →How SCAMP performs as a guess
SCAMP is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 74.8% of games, misses completely in 25.2%, and leaves about 234 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,504 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe SCAMP 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How SCAMP 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches SCAMP in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
SCAMP can come back 94 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for SCAMP; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing SCAMP
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to SCAMP.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing SCAMP:
Research on SCAMP
Game-tree analysis and word research for SCAMP, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with SCAMP, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #4,051 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.78 guesses at best and is rank #912 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- SCAMP sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.4 of 5).
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).