SCOOP
Yes, SCOOP was the Wordle answer on June 27, 2026 (Wordle #1834).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /skuːp//skʉwp//skup/
- Noun
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Any cup-shaped or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
“She kept a scoop in the dog food.”
- Noun
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The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
“Use one scoop of coffee for each pot.”
- Verb
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To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
“He used both hands to scoop water and splash it on his face.”
- Verb
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To make hollow; to dig out.
“I tried scooping a hole in the sand with my fingers.”
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English scope, schoupe, a borrowing from Middle Dutch scoep, scuep, schope, schoepe (“bucket for bailing water”) and Middle Dutch schoppe, scoppe, schuppe ("a scoop, shovel"; > Modern Dutch schop (“spade”)), from Proto-Germanic *skuppǭ, *skuppijǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (“to cut, to scrape, to hack”).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it SKOOP.
Rhymes with GROUP TROOP SNOOP COUPE SWOOP
Related meanings
Synonyms best TRUMP max exclusive pocket soap
In a sentence
Now this is a scoop.
Can I get another scoop?
Use SCOOP in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 85.5% 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
Used oncePast Wordle answer: June 27, 2026 (#1834).
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See what the public sample says →SCOOP in Connections
6 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . Showing the 5 most recent. A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #958
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SCOOP appeared in KINDS OF NECKLINES (blue group).
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· Puzzle #733
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SCOOP appeared in SEEN AT AN ICE CREAM SHOP (green group).
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· Puzzle #561
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SCOOP appeared in NECKLINES (green group).
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· Puzzle #465
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SCOOP appeared in LOWDOWN (green group).
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· Puzzle #219
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SCOOP appeared in INSIDE INFO (green group).
How SCOOP performs as a guess
SCOOP 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 66.5% of games, misses completely in 33.5%, and leaves about 345 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,449 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe SCOOP 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 SCOOP 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 SCOOP in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
SCOOP can come back 79 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 SCOOP; 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 SCOOP
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to SCOOP.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing SCOOP:
Research on SCOOP
Game-tree analysis and word research for SCOOP, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with SCOOP, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses and ranks #10,139 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.90 guesses at best and is rank #4,234 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.75, at or below the proven-optimal 3.79, 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
- SCOOP sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 5 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 63 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
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); Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0).