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SCANT

Yes, SCANT was the Wordle answer on January 4, 2024 (Wordle #929).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /skænt//skant//skæːnt/

Adjective

Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager.

“a scant allowance of provisions or water; a scant pattern of cloth for a garment”

Adjective

Sparing; parsimonious; chary.

Verb

To limit in amount or share; to stint.

“to scant someone in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries”

Verb

To fail, or become less; to scantle.

“The wind scants.”

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: January 4, 2024 (#929).

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

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How SCANT performs as a guess

SCANT 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 83.2% of games, misses completely in 16.8%, and leaves about 128 possible answers on average.

In the current bounded six-turn policy, it ranks #38 of 182 evaluated openers; exact misses rank first, then average guesses among wins.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #37 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.54 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___T S in the 1st position and T in the 5th position S__N_ S in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _C__T C in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

DROLE MARLE TRITE CRUEL GOIER POIRE
Words starting with S Words ending with T

First-turn measures

5.21 Entropy (bits)
128 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 92% of evaluated openers
0.74 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SCANT 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.

3.54 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.66 Volatility
#37 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SCANT ranks #37 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
66
3 guesses
1,088
4 guesses
1,067
5 guesses
117
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
1 vowels
Common:
ANST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
38%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I N K
S C A N T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SCANT in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

116 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

395
211
129
129
115
96
79
78
68
63
60
57
51
36
34
33
32
28
28
28
26
24
23
22
22
19
19
18
18
18

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SCANT:

17% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
9% chance
Suggested:
MARLE
5% chance
Suggested:
TRITE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.8% →
DROLE 6.12 bits
8.9% →
MARLE 5.37 bits
5.5% →
TRITE 5.46 bits
5.5% →
CRUEL 5.26 bits
4.9% →
GOIER 5.06 bits
4.1% →
POIRE 4.96 bits
3.4% →
DROLE 4.90 bits
3.3% →
ROUSE 5.08 bits
2.9% →
MARLE 4.51 bits
2.7% →
TARTE 4.83 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1C3A1N1T1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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