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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

SHAPE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.5% 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).

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 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 86.2% of games, misses completely in 13.8%, and leaves about 131 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,431 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.

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

Try next

DROIT DETER TALON GOIER ALTER STINK
Words starting with S Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.19 Entropy (bits)
131 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.5% 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 opener: v5 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
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#2,431 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SHAPE 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 (3.45 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 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

119 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

326
267
245
129
109
80
75
73
58
50
48
42
33
33
30
29
29
28
27
27
27
25
25
24
23
22
20
18
18
15

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.

13.8% →
DROIT 5.62 bits
11.3% →
DETER 5.41 bits
10.4% →
TALON 5.26 bits
5.5% →
GOIER 4.33 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
2.5% →
MOIST 4.74 bits
2.1% →
ANGLE 3.98 bits

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.