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SCORN

Yes, SCORN was the Wordle answer on September 30, 2022 (Wordle #468).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /skɔːn//skɔɹn/

Verb

To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.

Verb

To reject, turn down with disdain.

“He scorned her romantic advances.”

Noun

Contempt or disdain.

Noun

A display of disdain; a slight.

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: September 30, 2022 (#468).

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

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How SCORN performs as a guess

SCORN 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 84.1% of games, misses completely in 15.9%, and leaves about 136 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #451 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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___N S in the 1st position and N in the 5th position S__R_ S in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _C__N C in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

DEALT LAIDE TUILE PLATE CLEAT MODAL
Words starting with S Words ending with N

First-turn measures

5.01 Entropy (bits)
136 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 84% of evaluated openers
0.94 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SCORN 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.

3.58 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#451 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SCORN ranks #451 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
68
3 guesses
1,022
4 guesses
1,105
5 guesses
138
6 guesses
19
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
NORS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
32%
All gray
16%

Example solver route

R O A T E
G R I N D
A W A S H
S C O R N

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SCORN in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

108 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

376
251
146
134
124
113
105
83
73
60
53
47
46
45
43
42
38
34
34
31
30
24
22
21
16
16
15
14
14
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SCORN:

16% chance
Suggested:
DEALT
11% chance
Suggested:
LAIDE
6% chance
Suggested:
TUILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.9% →
DEALT 6.21 bits
10.6% →
LAIDE 5.33 bits
6.2% →
TUILE 5.33 bits
5.7% →
PLATE 5.52 bits
5.3% →
CLEAT 5.28 bits
4.8% →
MODAL 4.86 bits
4.5% →
LEAST 5.23 bits
3.5% →
ROATE 4.19 bits
3.1% →
CRATE 4.97 bits
2.5% →
BEATY 4.70 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1C3O1R1N1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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