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SCORE

Yes, SCORE was the Wordle answer on February 11, 2025 (Wordle #1333).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /skɔː//skoɹ//sko(ː)ɹ/

Noun

The total number of goals, points, runs, etc. earned by a participant in a game.

“The player with the highest score is the winner.”

Noun

The number of points accrued by each of the participants in a game, expressed as a ratio or a series of numbers.

“The score is 8-1 even though it's not even half-time!”

Verb

To cut a notch or a groove in a surface.

“The baker scored the cake so that the servers would know where to slice it.”

Verb

To record the tally of points for a game, a match, or an examination.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it SKAWR.

Rhymes with STORE FLOOR SHORE CORPS ADORE

Related meanings

Synonyms make account mark GRADE scotch TALLY

In a sentence

The score is one all.
© tatoeba.org contributor sundown (CC BY 2.0 FR)
The score is two to one.
© tatoeba.org contributor Nylez (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use SCORE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 96.0% of possible answers.

Open Solver with SCORE Open Word Finder

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: February 11, 2025 (#1333).

See the full page for that puzzle: February 11, 2025 (#1333).

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

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SCORE in Connections

8 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . Showing the 5 most recent. A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How SCORE performs as a guess

SCORE 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 89.1% of games, misses completely in 10.9%, and leaves about 95 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,321 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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___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 SC_RE S in the 1st position, C in the 2nd position, R in the 4th position, and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe SCORE 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.

5.43 Entropy (bits)
95 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
96.0% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SCORE 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#1,321 Rank among openers
Opening with SCORE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.61 average. It ranks #1,321 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
88
3 guesses
959
4 guesses
1,115
5 guesses
168
6 guesses
22

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EORS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
40%
All gray
11%

Example solver route

R O A T E
P R O N G
C H O R E
S C O R E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SCORE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

SCORE can come back 120 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

261 answers
174 answers
156 answers
129 answers
126 answers
112 answers
107 answers
107 answers
65 answers
64 answers
48 answers
47 answers
42 answers
42 answers
41 answers
40 answers
37 answers
36 answers
31 answers
30 answers
30 answers
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29 answers
28 answers
26 answers
26 answers
26 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1C3O1R1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

PAINT LEANT TALER TONAL AGILE TRIAD

Strategy after playing SCORE

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to SCORE.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SCORE:

11% chance
Suggested:
PAINT
7% chance
Suggested:
LEANT
7% chance
Suggested:
TALER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

10.9% →
PAINT 5.73 bits
7.3% →
LEANT 5.37 bits
6.5% →
TALER 4.35 bits
5.4% →
TONAL 4.96 bits
5.3% →
AGILE 4.65 bits
4.7% →
TRIAD 5.19 bits
4.5% →
CHAIN 5.15 bits
4.5% →
SLANT 4.71 bits
2.7% →
SAIST 4.63 bits
2.7% →
BARON 4.41 bits

Research on SCORE

Game-tree analysis and word research for SCORE, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with SCORE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.62 guesses and ranks #544 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.76 guesses at best and is rank #517 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.61, at or below the proven-optimal 3.62, 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
SCORE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 68 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 46 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.1 of 5).

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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).