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SHORT

Yes, SHORT was the Wordle answer on November 5, 2025 (Wordle #1600).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ʃɔːt//ʃɔɹt/[ʃɔɹʔ]

Adjective

Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.

Adjective

Of a person, living being, or object, having a comparatively small height.

Adverb

Abruptly, curtly, briefly.

“They had to stop short to avoid hitting the dog in the street.”

Adverb

Unawares.

“The recent developments at work caught them short.”

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: November 5, 2025 (#1600).

See the full page for that puzzle: November 5, 2025 (#1600).

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

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How SHORT performs as a guess

SHORT 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 82.1% of games, misses completely in 17.9%, and leaves about 145 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #160 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.56 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___T S in the 1st position and T in the 5th position S__R_ S in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _H__T H in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe SHORT 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.

5.18 Entropy (bits)
145 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 91% of evaluated openers
0.77 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SHORT 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.

3.56 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#160 Rank among openers
Opening with SHORT left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.56 average. It ranks #160 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
68
3 guesses
1,084
4 guesses
1,022
5 guesses
161
6 guesses
17
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
1 vowels
Common:
ORST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
38%
All gray
18%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S N O U T
S H O R T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SHORT in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

SHORT can come back 125 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

425 answers
277 answers
146 answers
112 answers
92 answers
82 answers
75 answers
63 answers
57 answers
54 answers
52 answers
49 answers
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24 answers
22 answers
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18 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1H4O1R1T1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Try next

ALINE LAIDE ANILE PLANE TITLE CARER

Strategy after playing SHORT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SHORT:

18% chance
Suggested:
ALINE
12% chance
Suggested:
LAIDE
6% chance
Suggested:
ANILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.9% →
ALINE 6.22 bits
11.7% →
LAIDE 5.35 bits
6.1% →
ANILE 4.98 bits
4.7% →
PLANE 5.35 bits
3.9% →
TITLE 5.31 bits
3.5% →
CARER 4.47 bits
3.2% →
ALINE 5.02 bits
2.7% →
PAISE 5.03 bits
2.4% →
CLADE 4.44 bits
2.3% →
CADIE 4.59 bits

Research on SHORT

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

Optimal play

Opening with SHORT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.62 guesses and ranks #697 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.75 guesses at best and is rank #322 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.56, at or below the proven-optimal 3.62, 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 SHAWRT.

Rhymes with COURT SPORT ABORT PORTE QUART

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SHORT is a kind of tract or contact.

Synonyms little LIGHT dead poor suddenly shortly

Opposites long tall sufficient courteous

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SHORT sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 214 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: 63 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.4 of 5).

In a sentence

In short, I don't know.
© tatoeba.org contributor AlanF_US (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I will make that short.
© tatoeba.org contributor Asif (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).