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SHRUG

Yes, SHRUG was the Wordle answer on August 19, 2022 (Wordle #426).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈʃɹʌɡ/[ˈʃɹʷʌɡ]/ˈʃɹɐɡ/

Noun

A lifting of the shoulders to signal indifference or a casual lack of knowledge.

“He dismissed my comment with a shrug.”

Noun

A cropped, cardigan-like garment with short or long sleeves, typically knitted.

Verb

To raise (the shoulders) to express uncertainty, lack of concern, (formerly) dread, etc.

“I asked him for an answer and he just shrugged.”

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 19, 2022 (#426).

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

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How SHRUG performs as a guess

SHRUG 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 76.8% of games, misses completely in 23.2%, and leaves about 228 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,950 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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___G S in the 1st position and G in the 5th position S__U_ S in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _H__G H in the 2nd position and G in the 5th position

Try next

ALONE ARIEL PLATE TUILE TOILE COATE
Words starting with S Words ending with G

First-turn measures

4.45 Entropy (bits)
228 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 48% of evaluated openers
1.50 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SHRUG 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#4,950 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SHRUG ranks #4,950 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
45
3 guesses
946
4 guesses
1,121
5 guesses
222
6 guesses
19
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:
RSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
29%
All gray
23%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I C K
S H R U B
S H R U G

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SHRUG in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

90 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

548
370
175
129
98
98
92
62
56
52
49
46
39
33
32
28
24
24
24
22
21
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12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SHRUG:

23% chance
Suggested:
ALONE
16% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
7% chance
Suggested:
PLATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.2% →
ALONE 6.09 bits
15.7% →
ARIEL 5.16 bits
7.4% →
PLATE 5.51 bits
5.5% →
TUILE 5.14 bits
4.2% →
ALONE 5.46 bits
4.2% →
TOILE 5.17 bits
3.9% →
COATE 5.10 bits
2.6% →
POTAE 4.43 bits
2.4% →
ALINE 4.70 bits
2.2% →
TRADE 4.52 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1H4R1U1G2
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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