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SCRAP

Yes, SCRAP was the Wordle answer on May 21, 2022 (Wordle #336).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈskɹæp/

Noun

A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.

“I found a scrap of cloth to patch the hole.”

Noun

Leftover food.

“Give the scraps to the animals: any meat to the dogs, and the rest to the hogs.”

Verb

To discard; to get rid of.

Verb

To stop working on (a project or plan) indefinitely.

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: May 21, 2022 (#336).

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

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How SCRAP performs as a guess

SCRAP 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 83.0% of games, misses completely in 17.0%, and leaves about 151 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,070 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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___P S in the 1st position and P in the 5th position S__A_ S in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _C__P C in the 2nd position and P in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE TIARE CLINE TOISE CHANT POUTY
Words starting with S Words ending with P

First-turn measures

4.91 Entropy (bits)
151 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 78% of evaluated openers
1.04 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#1,070 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SCRAP ranks #1,070 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
67
3 guesses
992
4 guesses
1,114
5 guesses
164
6 guesses
13
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:
ARS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
29%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SCRAP in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

108 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

400
237
232
134
128
115
77
64
62
58
57
51
50
48
37
37
31
30
28
27
27
20
16
16
16
15
14
13
13
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SCRAP:

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

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.0% →
TOILE 6.14 bits
10.1% →
TOILE 5.27 bits
9.8% →
TOILE 5.28 bits
5.7% →
TIARE 4.44 bits
5.4% →
CLINE 5.29 bits
4.9% →
TOILE 5.05 bits
3.3% →
TOISE 4.94 bits
2.7% →
CHANT 4.46 bits
2.6% →
POUTY 4.73 bits
2.5% →
THALE 4.52 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1C3R1A1P3
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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