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SCRIM

SCRIM is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /skɹɪm/

Noun

A kind of light cotton or linen fabric, often woven in openwork patterns, used for curtains, etc,.

Noun

A large military scarf, usually camouflage coloured and used for concealment when not used as a scarf.

Verb

To use a scrim.

Verb

To participate in a scrim.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

Attested since the end of the 18th century. Origin unknown.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use SCRIM in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 92.7% of possible answers.

Open Solver with SCRIM Open Word Finder

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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How SCRIM performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SCRIM as a guess, but the solver does not list it as a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 81.5% of games, misses completely in 18.5%, and leaves about 173 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,688 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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.
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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__I_ S in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _C__M C in the 2nd position and M in the 5th position SC_IM S in the 1st position, C in the 2nd position, I in the 4th position, and M in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe SCRIM 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.

4.69 Entropy (bits)
173 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.7% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SCRIM 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#2,688 Rank among openers
Opening with SCRIM left 2 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 3.63 average. It ranks #2,688 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
980
4 guesses
1,114
5 guesses
190
6 guesses
15

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
IRS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
29%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

SCRIM can come back 95 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

440 answers
290 answers
184 answers
154 answers
144 answers
109 answers
94 answers
93 answers
72 answers
68 answers
50 answers
48 answers
46 answers
40 answers
37 answers
34 answers
28 answers
28 answers
25 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1C3R1I1M3
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

ALONE OLATE LEANT HAOLE LEAST DAINE

Strategy after playing SCRIM

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SCRIM:

18% chance
Suggested:
ALONE
12% chance
Suggested:
OLATE
8% chance
Suggested:
LEANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.5% →
ALONE 6.09 bits
12.2% →
OLATE 5.18 bits
7.7% →
LEANT 5.27 bits
6.5% →
LEANT 5.38 bits
6.0% →
HAOLE 5.42 bits
4.6% →
LEAST 5.31 bits
3.9% →
DAINE 4.57 bits
3.9% →
MEANY 5.05 bits
3.0% →
POTAE 4.71 bits
2.9% →
CRATE 4.89 bits

Research on SCRIM

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

Optimal play

Opening with SCRIM, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,524 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.78 guesses at best and is rank #927 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SCRIM 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).