SCRAP
Yes, SCRAP was the Wordle answer on May 21, 2022 (Wordle #336).
As an opener, it rules out about 93.5% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈskɹæp/
- Noun
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A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
“I found a scrap of cloth to patch the hole.”
- Noun
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Leftover food.
“Give the scraps to the animals: any meat to the dogs, and the rest to the hogs.”
- Verb
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To discard; to get rid of.
- Verb
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To stop working on (a project or plan) indefinitely.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Wordle status
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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: May 21, 2022 (#336).
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See what the public sample says →How SCRAP performs as a guess
SCRAP 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 82.9% of games, misses completely in 17.1%, and leaves about 153 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,070 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 SCRAP 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 SCRAP 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 SCRAP in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
SCRAP can come back 109 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 SCRAP; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing SCRAP
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to SCRAP.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing SCRAP:
Research on SCRAP
Game-tree analysis and word research for SCRAP, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with SCRAP, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,664 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.75 guesses at best and is rank #294 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 3.65, 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.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, SCRAP is a kind of fragment or waste.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- SCRAP sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 8 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 7, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 54 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.0 of 5).
In a sentence
We should scrap the whole thing.
The car was turned into scrap.
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); Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).