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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).

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 2,358 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 144 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #160 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.56 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.

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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

Try next

ALINE LAIDE ANILE PLANE TITLE CARER
Words starting with S Words ending with T

First-turn measures

5.18 Entropy (bits)
144 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 opener: v5 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
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#160 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SHORT 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 (3.45 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

125 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

421
275
145
112
89
82
75
62
56
54
52
49
45
43
36
35
31
30
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28
23
22
22
21
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20
18
16

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 6.21 bits
11.7% →
LAIDE 5.35 bits
6.1% →
ANILE 4.99 bits
4.7% →
PLANE 5.35 bits
3.8% →
TITLE 5.29 bits
3.5% →
CARER 4.47 bits
3.2% →
ALINE 5.02 bits
2.6% →
PAISE 5.00 bits
2.4% →
CLADE 4.42 bits
2.3% →
CADIE 4.59 bits

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.