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SCOWL

Yes, SCOWL was the Wordle answer on December 17, 2024 (Wordle #1277).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /skaʊl/

Noun

The wrinkling of the brows or face in frowning; the expression of displeasure, sullenness, or discontent in the countenance; an angry frown.

“She made a scowl.”

Noun

Gloom; dark or threatening aspect.

Verb

To wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry.

Verb

To look gloomy, dark, or threatening; to lower.

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: December 17, 2024 (#1277).

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

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How SCOWL performs as a guess

SCOWL 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 76.5% of games, misses completely in 23.5%, and leaves about 216 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,318 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

Useful pattern pages

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

S___L S in the 1st position and L in the 5th position S__W_ S in the 1st position and W in the 4th position _C__L C in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

Try next

TIARE RAILE RONTE REAST PRATE RAINE
Words starting with S Words ending with L

First-turn measures

4.43 Entropy (bits)
216 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 47% of evaluated openers
1.52 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SCOWL 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#5,318 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SCOWL ranks #5,318 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
915
4 guesses
1,177
5 guesses
209
6 guesses
12
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:
LOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
29%
All gray
24%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I N K
S C O L D
S C O W L

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SCOWL in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

84 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

554
231
202
185
164
123
80
73
55
51
51
47
46
37
36
25
24
24
19
19
16
16
15
15
14
13
12
11
10
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SCOWL:

23% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
10% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
9% chance
Suggested:
RONTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.5% →
TIARE 6.24 bits
9.8% →
RAILE 5.42 bits
8.6% →
RONTE 5.41 bits
7.8% →
TIARE 5.76 bits
7.0% →
TIARE 5.33 bits
5.2% →
REAST 5.44 bits
3.4% →
PRATE 4.70 bits
3.1% →
RAINE 4.62 bits
2.3% →
CARNE 4.71 bits
2.2% →
TRADE 5.16 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1C3O1W4L1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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