Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

SCROO

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

No dictionary definition for SCROO is recorded in our sourced data.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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Use SCROO in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 90.2% of possible answers.

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 SCROO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SCROO 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 76.5% of games, misses completely in 23.5%, and leaves about 233 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,617 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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.

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First-turn measures

All four describe SCROO 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.

4.31 Entropy (bits)
233 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.2% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SCROO 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#8,617 Rank among openers
Opening with SCROO left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.73 average. It ranks #8,617 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
810
4 guesses
1,224
5 guesses
239
6 guesses
24

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ORS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
28%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

SCROO can come back 83 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

561 answers
318 answers
189 answers
174 answers
162 answers
119 answers
96 answers
73 answers
64 answers
48 answers
42 answers
39 answers
37 answers
31 answers
31 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
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14 answers
13 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1C3R1O1O1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing SCROO

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SCROO:

24% chance
Suggested:
ANILE
13% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
8% chance
Suggested:
LEANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.5% →
ANILE 6.19 bits
13.3% →
ARIEL 5.18 bits
7.9% →
LEANT 5.40 bits
7.3% →
NAICE 5.35 bits
6.8% →
LEANT 5.03 bits
5.0% →
HASTE 5.15 bits
4.0% →
GRATE 4.31 bits
3.1% →
CRATE 4.83 bits
2.7% →
MATEY 4.64 bits
2.0% →
CLINE 4.27 bits

Research on SCROO

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

Optimal play

Opening with SCROO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #9,176 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.90 guesses at best and is rank #4,285 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.73, at or below the proven-optimal 3.77, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).