SCOUT
Yes, SCOUT was the Wordle answer on June 6, 2023 (Wordle #717).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈskaʊ̯t//ˈskɐʊ̯t//ˈskʌʊ̯t/
- Noun
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A person sent out to gather and bring back information; especially, one employed in war to gain information about the enemy and ground.
- Noun
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An act of scouting or reconnoitering.
- Verb
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To explore a wide terrain, as if on a search.
- Verb
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To observe, watch, or look for, as a scout; to follow for the purpose of observation, as a scout.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
Uncertain. The Dictionary of the Scots Language (DSL) groups the verb scout, scoot (/skut/, regionally /skʌut/) "cause liquid to gush" with a noun scout "sudden gush or flow of water, as from a spout or over rock", and considers the pair to be of Scandinavian origin, perhaps related to Old Norse skjóta (“shoot”); however, scout (or scut) was formerly also found as a word for "flow of water over rocks, waterfall; ridge or overhang of rocks" in various northern and central English dialects, and th…
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it SKOWT.
Rhymes with ABOUT DOUBT SHOUT TROUT STOUT
Related meanings
Synonyms WATCH GUIDE lookout sentinel picket sentry
In a sentence
I have never been a scout.
I was a boy scout.
Use SCOUT in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 92.6% 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 6, 2023 (#717).
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1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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SCOUT appeared in SPORTS PROFESSIONALS (green group).
How SCOUT performs as a guess
SCOUT 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 78.2% of games, misses completely in 21.8%, and leaves about 177 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #934 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe SCOUT 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 SCOUT 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 SCOUT in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
SCOUT can come back 110 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 SCOUT; 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 SCOUT
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to SCOUT.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing SCOUT:
Research on SCOUT
Game-tree analysis and word research for SCOUT, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with SCOUT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #2,972 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.79 guesses at best and is rank #1,238 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.60, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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
- SCOUT sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 9 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.5 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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).