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SHORE

Yes, SHORE was the Wordle answer on August 14, 2024 (Wordle #1152).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ʃɔː//ʃɔɹ//ʃo(ː)ɹ/

Noun

Land adjoining a non-flowing body of water, such as an ocean, lake or pond.

“lake shore; bay shore; gulf shore; island shore; mainland shore; river shore; estuary shore; pond shore; sandy shore; rocky shore”

Noun

Land, usually near a port.

“The seamen were serving on shore instead of on ships.”

Verb

Not followed by up: to provide (something) with support.

Verb

Usually followed by up: to reinforce (something at risk of failure).

“My family shored me up after I failed the GED.”

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: August 14, 2024 (#1152).

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

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How SHORE performs as a guess

SHORE 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 88.0% of games, misses completely in 12.0%, and leaves about 101 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,334 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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 SHORE.

First-turn measures

All four describe SHORE 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.

5.42 Entropy (bits)
101 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 97% of evaluated openers
0.53 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SHORE 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#3,334 Rank among openers
Opening with SHORE left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.64 average. It ranks #3,334 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
80
3 guesses
937
4 guesses
1,104
5 guesses
201
6 guesses
29
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:
EORS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
42%
All gray
12%

Example solver route

R O A T E
P R O N G
C H O R E
S H O R E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SHORE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

SHORE can come back 121 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

286 answers
176 answers
172 answers
139 answers
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100 answers
63 answers
62 answers
57 answers
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23 answers
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17 answers
17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1H4O1R1E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Try next

PLAIT LEANT AIDER TONAL AGILE TRAIN

Strategy after playing SHORE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SHORE:

12% chance
Suggested:
PLAIT
7% chance
Suggested:
LEANT
7% chance
Suggested:
AIDER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.0% →
PLAIT 5.61 bits
7.4% →
LEANT 5.38 bits
7.2% →
AIDER 4.16 bits
5.9% →
TONAL 5.05 bits
5.5% →
AGILE 4.62 bits
5.3% →
TRAIN 5.02 bits
4.2% →
SLANT 4.70 bits
2.7% →
CRAPE 3.71 bits
2.6% →
CAROM 4.43 bits
2.4% →
LATCH 4.21 bits

Research on SHORE

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

Optimal play

Opening with SHORE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #995 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 SHORE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.64; proven optimal play reaches 3.63. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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 SHAWR.

Rhymes with STORE FLOOR SCORE CORPS ADORE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SHORE is a kind of formation or beam.

Synonyms land prop

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SHORE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 21 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 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 89 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.8 of 5).

In a sentence

I'm going to the shore.
© tatoeba.org contributor Eccles17 (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I made it to the shore.
© 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).