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

SHAME

Yes, SHAME was the Wordle answer on April 15, 2022 (Wordle #300).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.5% of possible answers.

Open Solver with SHAME Open Word Finder

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈʃeɪ̯m/[ˈʃeɪ̯m]/ˈʃæɪ̯m/

Noun

An uncomfortable or painful feeling due to recognition or consciousness of one's own impropriety or dishonor, or something being exposed that should have been kept private.

“When I realized that I had hurt my friend, I felt deep shame.”

Noun

Something to regret.

“It was a shame not to see the show after driving all that way.”

Interjection

A cry of admonition for the subject of a speech, either to denounce the speaker or to agree with the speaker's denunciation of some person or matter; often used reduplicated, especially in political debates.

Interjection

Ellipsis of what a shame; expressing disappointment or sympathy

“Shame, you poor thing, you must be cold!”

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: April 15, 2022 (#300).

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

Wordle Observatory

How did this puzzle feel?

About the project

Add an anonymous result and difficulty rating to the public, aggregate research dataset.

We send only this answer word for puzzle verification, the puzzle number, result, difficulty vote, Hard Mode flag, timezone and a random one-puzzle receipt token. The Observatory stores no answer word, grid, guesses, account, email, IP-derived ID or reusable player identifier. The puzzle-specific receipt prevents duplicate submissions and permits withdrawal; anyone with that token can withdraw, so keep browser-data exports private. See the privacy details.

How SHAME performs as a guess

SHAME 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 86.5% of games, misses completely in 13.5%, and leaves about 129 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,443 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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___E S in the 1st position and E in the 5th position S__M_ S in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _H__E H in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

DROIT OLDER TALON GOIER ALTER SNOUT
Words starting with S Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.14 Entropy (bits)
129 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 90% of evaluated openers
0.81 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SHAME 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#4,443 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SHAME ranks #4,443 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
76
3 guesses
882
4 guesses
1,170
5 guesses
210
6 guesses
14
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
2 vowels
Common:
AES

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
42%
All gray
14%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L U M P
S H A M E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SHAME in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

112 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

318
268
226
139
109
99
77
75
57
46
46
44
39
38
37
35
33
31
30
29
29
29
27
25
20
18
18
18
18
16

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SHAME:

13% chance
Suggested:
DROIT
11% chance
Suggested:
OLDER
10% chance
Suggested:
TALON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.5% →
DROIT 5.63 bits
11.4% →
OLDER 4.99 bits
9.6% →
TALON 5.33 bits
5.9% →
GOIER 4.29 bits
4.6% →
ALTER 4.63 bits
4.2% →
SNOUT 4.34 bits
3.3% →
TRINE 4.27 bits
3.2% →
TOUCH 4.65 bits
2.4% →
TORUS 4.88 bits
2.0% →
TUMOR 4.41 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1H4A1M3E1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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