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SHOVE

Yes, SHOVE was the Wordle answer on December 6, 2024 (Wordle #1266).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ʃʌv//ʃʊv//ʃəʊv/

Verb

To push, especially roughly or with force.

Verb

To move off or along by an act of pushing, as with an oar or pole used in a boat; sometimes with off.

Noun

A rough push.

Noun

An all-in bet.

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 6, 2024 (#1266).

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

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How SHOVE performs as a guess

SHOVE 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 82.7% of games, misses completely in 17.3%, and leaves about 176 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,358 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

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__V_ S in the 1st position and V in the 4th position _H__E H in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIL ALTER TONAL RAILE SLANT CLARY
Words starting with S Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.66 Entropy (bits)
176 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 62% of evaluated openers
1.29 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SHOVE 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#9,358 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SHOVE ranks #9,358 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
60
3 guesses
772
4 guesses
1,244
5 guesses
253
6 guesses
24
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
2 vowels
Common:
EOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
39%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I C K
S H O N E
S H O V E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SHOVE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

90 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

407
341
200
177
130
93
77
72
67
53
43
39
38
37
36
36
35
29
27
27
24
22
21
19
17
15
15
14
14
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SHOVE:

17% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
14% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
8% chance
Suggested:
TONAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.3% →
TRAIL 5.85 bits
14.5% →
ALTER 5.39 bits
8.5% →
TONAL 5.01 bits
7.5% →
RAILE 4.42 bits
5.5% →
SLANT 4.71 bits
3.9% →
CLARY 4.08 bits
3.3% →
MIRTH 4.47 bits
3.1% →
SAIST 4.70 bits
2.8% →
OWNER 4.12 bits
2.2% →
PATER 4.25 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1H4O1V4E1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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