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SHAPE

Yes, SHAPE was the Wordle answer on July 8, 2024 (Wordle #1115).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈʃeɪ̯p/[ˈʃeɪ̯p]

Noun

The status or condition of something

“The used bookshop wouldn’t offer much due to the poor shape of the book.”

Noun

Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.

“The vet checked to see what kind of shape the animal was in.”

Verb

To give something a shape and definition.

“Shape the dough into a pretzel. For my art project, I plan to shape my clay lump into a bowl.”

Verb

To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.

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 8, 2024 (#1115).

See the full page for that puzzle: July 8, 2024 (#1115).

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

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How SHAPE performs as a guess

SHAPE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 86.1% of games, misses completely in 13.9%, and leaves about 132 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,431 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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__P_ S in the 1st position and P in the 4th position _H__E H in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe SHAPE 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.

5.19 Entropy (bits)
132 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 91% of evaluated openers
0.76 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SHAPE 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
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#2,431 Rank among openers
Opening with SHAPE left 2 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 3.63 average. It ranks #2,431 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
74
3 guesses
949
4 guesses
1,118
5 guesses
197
6 guesses
13
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AES

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
41%
All gray
14%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SHAPE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

SHAPE can come back 120 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

329 answers
271 answers
245 answers
131 answers
110 answers
80 answers
75 answers
73 answers
58 answers
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33 answers
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Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1H4A1P3E1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

DROIT DETER TALON GOIER ALTER STINK

Strategy after playing SHAPE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SHAPE:

14% chance
Suggested:
DROIT
11% chance
Suggested:
DETER
10% chance
Suggested:
TALON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.9% →
DROIT 5.61 bits
11.4% →
DETER 5.41 bits
10.3% →
TALON 5.26 bits
5.5% →
GOIER 4.37 bits
4.6% →
ALTER 4.69 bits
3.4% →
STINK 4.49 bits
3.2% →
NORTH 4.67 bits
3.1% →
CRINE 3.99 bits
2.4% →
MOIST 4.74 bits
2.1% →
ANGLE 3.98 bits

Research on SHAPE

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

Optimal play

Opening with SHAPE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,881 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with SHAPE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it SHAYP.

Rhymes with GRAPE CREPE DRAPE SCAPE AGAPE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SHAPE is a kind of leaders or property.

Synonyms work form figure BUILD condition cast

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SHAPE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 52 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A2); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 4, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 69 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.7 of 5).

In a sentence

You and I are in shape.
© tatoeba.org contributor deniko (CC BY 2.0 FR)
What shape is it in?
© tatoeba.org contributor CM (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).