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SHARE

Yes, SHARE was the Wordle answer on December 25, 2024 (Wordle #1285).

As an opener, it rules out about 96.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ʃɛə//ʃɛː//ʃɛɚ/

Noun

A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone.

“Each of the robbers took a share of the loot.”

Noun

A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability.

Verb

To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.

Verb

To have or use in common.

“to share a shelter with another”

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: December 25, 2024 (#1285).

See the full page for that puzzle: December 25, 2024 (#1285).

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

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How SHARE performs as a guess

SHARE 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 89.6% of games, misses completely in 10.4%, and leaves about 88 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,253 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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__R_ S in the 1st position and R 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 SHARE.

First-turn measures

All four describe SHARE 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.

5.60 Entropy (bits)
88 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
96.3% Avg ruled out
In the top 1% for first-turn entropy
0.34 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SHARE 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#1,253 Rank among openers
Opening with SHARE left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.60 average. It ranks #1,253 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
86
3 guesses
978
4 guesses
1,077
5 guesses
196
6 guesses
14
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AERS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
90%
Green tile
43%
All gray
10%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C R I S P
S H A R E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SHARE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

SHARE can come back 131 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

248 answers
185 answers
147 answers
144 answers
121 answers
96 answers
87 answers
72 answers
68 answers
66 answers
59 answers
57 answers
45 answers
43 answers
38 answers
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34 answers
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28 answers
26 answers
24 answers
22 answers
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19 answers
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19 answers
18 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1H4A1R1E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Try next

LOGIN TALON INTEL RIDER DROIT GUILE

Strategy after playing SHARE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SHARE:

10% chance
Suggested:
LOGIN
8% chance
Suggested:
TALON
6% chance
Suggested:
INTEL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

10.4% →
LOGIN 5.45 bits
7.8% →
TALON 5.23 bits
6.2% →
INTEL 5.18 bits
6.1% →
RIDER 4.28 bits
5.1% →
DROIT 4.60 bits
4.0% →
GUILE 4.73 bits
3.7% →
STINK 4.45 bits
3.0% →
CAROL 4.53 bits
2.9% →
TOUCH 4.64 bits
2.8% →
METAL 4.32 bits

Research on SHARE

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

Optimal play

Opening with SHARE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #931 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 SHARE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.60, at or below the proven-optimal 3.63, 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 SHEHR.

Rhymes with THEIR THERE WHERE AWARE CHAIR

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SHARE is a kind of assets or stock.

Synonyms part deal portion percentage contribution parcel

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SHARE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 158 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 A1); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 4, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 45 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.4 of 5).

In a sentence

You can have my share.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Would you like to share?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (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).