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SKATE

Yes, SKATE was the Wordle answer on August 25, 2024 (Wordle #1163).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /skeɪt/

Noun

A runner or blade, usually of steel, with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, made to be fastened under the foot, and used for gliding on ice.

Noun

Ellipsis of ice skate.

Verb

To move along a surface (ice or ground) using skates.

Verb

To skateboard.

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 25, 2024 (#1163).

See the full page for that puzzle: August 25, 2024 (#1163).

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

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How SKATE performs as a guess

SKATE 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 86.8% of games, misses completely in 13.2%, and leaves about 116 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,561 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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___E S in the 1st position and E in the 5th position S__T_ S in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _K__E K in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe SKATE 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.

5.23 Entropy (bits)
116 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 93% of evaluated openers
0.72 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SKATE 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#3,561 Rank among openers
Opening with SKATE solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.65 average. It ranks #3,561 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
69
3 guesses
899
4 guesses
1,193
5 guesses
177
6 guesses
15
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
2 vowels
Common:
AEST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
42%
All gray
13%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C L A S P
S K A T E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SKATE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

SKATE can come back 104 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

313 answers
232 answers
200 answers
138 answers
106 answers
91 answers
85 answers
75 answers
66 answers
58 answers
48 answers
45 answers
44 answers
41 answers
37 answers
36 answers
36 answers
33 answers
33 answers
31 answers
26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
22 answers
19 answers
19 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1K5A1T1E1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

COULD OLDER CAROL GOIER COURT REGAL

Strategy after playing SKATE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SKATE:

13% chance
Suggested:
COULD
10% chance
Suggested:
OLDER
8% chance
Suggested:
CAROL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.2% →
COULD 5.51 bits
9.8% →
OLDER 5.03 bits
8.4% →
CAROL 5.27 bits
5.8% →
GOIER 4.46 bits
4.5% →
COURT 5.01 bits
3.8% →
REGAL 4.63 bits
3.6% →
DETER 4.76 bits
3.2% →
TALON 4.26 bits
2.8% →
SPOIL 4.16 bits
2.4% →
DRICE 4.17 bits

Research on SKATE

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

Optimal play

Opening with SKATE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #2,668 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with SKATE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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 SKAYT.

Rhymes with GREAT STATE EIGHT PLATE SLATE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SKATE is a kind of equipment or ray.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SKATE sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 5 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
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 sight (3.5 of 5).

In a sentence

I know how to skate.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
You can skate, can't you?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (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; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).