SHOUT
Yes, SHOUT was the Wordle answer on October 22, 2024 (Wordle #1221).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ʃaʊt//ʃʌʊt//ʃuːt/
- Noun
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A loud burst of voice or voices; a violent and sudden outcry, especially that of a multitude expressing joy, triumph, exultation, anger, or great effort.
“give out a shout”
- Noun
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A round of drinks in a pub; the turn to pay the shot or scot; an act of paying for a round of drinks.
- Verb
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To utter a sudden and loud cry, as in joy, triumph, exultation or anger, or to attract attention, to animate others, etc.
“Mom shouted to us to come sit at the table.”
- Verb
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To utter with a shout; to cry; to shout out
“They shouted his name to get his attention.”
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English shouten. Further origin uncertain. Possibly related to Middle English shooten (“to shoot (out)”) or from or akin to Old Norse skúta (“to chide, scold”), Old Norse skúti, skúta (“a taunt”). See also the second, rare sense of the verb scout (“to reject with contempt”).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it SHOWT.
Rhymes with ABOUT DOUBT SCOUT TROUT STOUT
Related meanings
Synonyms call ABUSE cry scream yell outcry
Opposites whisper
In a sentence
You don't have to shout.
I don't want to shout.
Use SHOUT in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 91.6% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: October 22, 2024 (#1221).
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2 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #759
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SHOUT appeared in THINGS YOU DO AT SOMEONE'S FRONT DOOR (blue group).
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· Puzzle #266
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SHOUT appeared in WAYS TO GET ATTENTION (blue group).
How SHOUT performs as a guess
SHOUT is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 75.5% of games, misses completely in 24.5%, and leaves about 200 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,113 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe SHOUT 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How SHOUT 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches SHOUT in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
SHOUT can come back 114 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for SHOUT; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
Try next
Strategy after playing SHOUT
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to SHOUT.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing SHOUT:
Research on SHOUT
Game-tree analysis and word research for SHOUT, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with SHOUT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,420 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.81 guesses at best and is rank #1,697 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- SHOUT sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 11 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.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (4.1 of 5).
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; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).