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SCRAM

Yes, SCRAM was the Wordle answer on February 13, 2024 (Wordle #969).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /skɹæm/

Verb

To leave in a hurry; to go away.

“What are you kids doing on my lawn? Scram!”

Noun

A gun, firearm.

Verb

To shut down (a nuclear reactor or, by extension, some other thing) for safety reasons, usually because of an emergency.

Noun

A shutdown of a nuclear reactor (or, by extension, some other thing), often done rapidly due to an emergency.

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: February 13, 2024 (#969).

See the full page for that puzzle: February 13, 2024 (#969).

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

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How SCRAM performs as a guess

SCRAM 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 83.3% of games, misses completely in 16.7%, and leaves about 153 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,934 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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___M S in the 1st position and M in the 5th position S__A_ S in the 1st position and A in the 4th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe SCRAM 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.

4.84 Entropy (bits)
153 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 74% of evaluated openers
1.11 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SCRAM 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#1,934 Rank among openers
Opening with SCRAM left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.62 average. It ranks #1,934 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
65
3 guesses
973
4 guesses
1,116
5 guesses
184
6 guesses
12
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ARS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
28%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C A R R Y
S C R A M

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SCRAM in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

SCRAM can come back 105 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

396 answers
246 answers
225 answers
142 answers
133 answers
130 answers
81 answers
71 answers
61 answers
61 answers
55 answers
53 answers
52 answers
51 answers
46 answers
33 answers
32 answers
31 answers
28 answers
27 answers
23 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1C3R1A1M3
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

TOILE TIARE CLINE TOUSE POLEY CHANT

Strategy after playing SCRAM

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SCRAM:

17% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
10% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
9% chance
Suggested:
TOILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.7% →
TOILE 6.14 bits
10.4% →
TOILE 5.28 bits
9.5% →
TOILE 5.30 bits
6.0% →
TOILE 5.07 bits
5.6% →
TIARE 4.52 bits
5.5% →
CLINE 5.26 bits
3.4% →
TOUSE 5.05 bits
3.0% →
POLEY 4.96 bits
2.6% →
CHANT 4.46 bits
2.6% →
LEANT 4.55 bits

Research on SCRAM

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

Optimal play

Opening with SCRAM, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,173 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.77 guesses at best and is rank #661 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, 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 SKRAM.

Rhymes with ABRAM DAMME FLAMM

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SCRAM is a kind of leave.

Synonyms get

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SCRAM sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (2.2 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).