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SCOOP

Yes, SCOOP was the Wordle answer on June 27, 2026 (Wordle #1834).

As an opener, it rules out about 85.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /skuːp//skʉwp//skup/

Noun

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

The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.

“Use one scoop of coffee for each pot.”

Verb

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

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.

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: June 27, 2026 (#1834).

See the full page for that puzzle: June 27, 2026 (#1834).

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

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How SCOOP performs as a guess

SCOOP 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 66.4% of games, misses completely in 33.6%, 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

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

S___P S in the 1st position and P in the 5th position S__O_ S in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _C__P C in the 2nd position and P in the 5th position

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

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.

3.93 Entropy (bits)
345 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
85.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 19% of evaluated openers
2.02 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

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.

3.75 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#9,449 Rank among openers
Opening with SCOOP left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.75 average. It ranks #9,449 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
799
4 guesses
1,230
5 guesses
260
6 guesses
19
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
OS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
66%
Green tile
29%
All gray
34%

Example solver route

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

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:

797 answers
227 answers
196 answers
191 answers
138 answers
131 answers
82 answers
63 answers
51 answers
40 answers
31 answers
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26 answers
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12 answers
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11 answers
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10 answers
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8 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1C3O1O1P3
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

RAILE LEANT RONTE TIARE PAIRE GRATE

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:

34% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
10% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
8% chance
Suggested:
LEANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

33.6% →
RAILE 6.26 bits
9.6% →
RAILE 5.51 bits
8.3% →
LEANT 5.37 bits
8.0% →
RONTE 5.07 bits
5.8% →
TIARE 5.44 bits
5.5% →
PAIRE 5.40 bits
3.5% →
GRATE 4.75 bits
2.7% →
MARLE 4.47 bits
2.1% →
CARNE 4.44 bits
1.7% →
TRINE 4.62 bits

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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it SKOOP.

Rhymes with GROUP TROOP SNOOP COUPE SWOOP

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SCOOP is a kind of amount or solid.

Synonyms best TRUMP max exclusive pocket soap

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.

In a sentence

Now this is a scoop.
© tatoeba.org contributor end (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Can I get another scoop?
© tatoeba.org contributor casaniere (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); Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0).