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SCARE

Yes, SCARE was the Wordle answer on April 8, 2022 (Wordle #293).

As an opener, it rules out about 96.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /skɛə//skɛɚ//skɪə(ɹ)/

Noun

A minor fright.

“Johnny had a bad scare last night.”

Noun

A cause of terror or alarm; a panic; something that inspires fear or dread.

“a food-poisoning scare”

Verb

To frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way.

“Did it scare you when I said "Boo!"?”

Verb

(To be able) to be scared.

“I don't scare easily.”

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: April 8, 2022 (#293).

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

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How SCARE performs as a guess

SCARE 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 89.7% of games, misses completely in 10.3%, and leaves about 83 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #774 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.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

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__R_ S in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _C__E C in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

GUILT TALON INLET TENOR FRONT SPILT
Words starting with S Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.63 Entropy (bits)
83 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
96.5% Avg ruled out
In the top 1% for first-turn entropy
0.32 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SCARE 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
0.71 Volatility
#774 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SCARE ranks #774 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
94
3 guesses
971
4 guesses
1,096
5 guesses
176
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:
AERS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
90%
Green tile
41%
All gray
10%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C R I S P
S C A R E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SCARE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

127 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

244
159
142
130
114
91
90
86
66
57
53
52
50
45
44
33
33
31
31
31
30
29
28
26
25
25
22
22
21
21

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SCARE:

10% chance
Suggested:
GUILT
7% chance
Suggested:
TALON
6% chance
Suggested:
INLET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

10.3% →
GUILT 5.48 bits
6.7% →
TALON 5.29 bits
6.0% →
INLET 5.14 bits
5.5% →
TENOR 3.90 bits
4.8% →
FRONT 4.64 bits
3.9% →
SPILT 4.44 bits
3.8% →
CHUNK 4.77 bits
3.6% →
GUILE 4.70 bits
2.8% →
BARON 4.25 bits
2.4% →
ANGEL 4.41 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1C3A1R1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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