5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

SHAFT

Yes, SHAFT was the Wordle answer on July 20, 2024 (Wordle #1127).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈʃɑːft//ˈʃɐːft/[ˈʃɐ̞ːft]

Noun

The long, narrow, central body of a spear, arrow, or javelin.

“Her hand slipped off the javelin's shaft towards the spearpoint and that's why her score was lowered.”

Noun

Anything cast or thrown as a spear or javelin.

Verb

To fuck over; to cause harm to, especially through deceit or treachery.

“Your boss really shafted you by stealing your idea like that.”

Verb

To equip with a shaft.

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: July 20, 2024 (#1127).

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

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How SHAFT performs as a guess

SHAFT is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,359 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 76.5% of games, misses completely in 23.5%, and leaves about 205 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,939 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

S___T S in the 1st position and T in the 5th position S__F_ S in the 1st position and F in the 4th position _H__T H in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

DROLE MARLE CLINE NOIRE DRICE RIONE
Words starting with S Words ending with T

First-turn measures

4.71 Entropy (bits)
205 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.3% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SHAFT 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
100.0% Win rate
0.66 Volatility
#1,939 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SHAFT ranks #1,939 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
60
3 guesses
946
4 guesses
1,184
5 guesses
156
6 guesses
7

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
AST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
37%
All gray
24%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I N K
S H A F T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SHAFT in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

108 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

554
309
126
107
103
80
75
74
73
70
42
39
36
36
34
34
31
26
26
26
24
22
21
20
19
19
16
16
15
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SHAFT:

23% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
13% chance
Suggested:
MARLE
5% chance
Suggested:
CLINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.5% →
DROLE 6.09 bits
13.1% →
MARLE 5.32 bits
5.3% →
CLINE 5.13 bits
4.5% →
NOIRE 5.32 bits
4.4% →
DRICE 4.72 bits
3.4% →
RIONE 5.18 bits
3.2% →
GOIER 4.86 bits
3.1% →
TARTE 4.70 bits
3.1% →
GOIER 4.89 bits
3.0% →
CONEY 4.74 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1H4A1F4T1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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