5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

SKATT

SKATT is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.

As an opener, it rules out about 88.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Obsolete form of scat (“rain shower”).

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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

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

How SKATT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SKATT as a guess, but the solver does not list it as a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 71.2% of games, misses completely in 28.8%, and leaves about 279 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,867 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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___T S in the 1st position and T in the 5th position S__T_ S in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _K__T K in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

RIONE CARLE NOIRE DRICE OUTER ROUSE
Words starting with S Words ending with T

First-turn measures

4.21 Entropy (bits)
279 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 33% of evaluated openers
1.74 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SKATT 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#8,867 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SKATT ranks #8,867 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
31
3 guesses
820
4 guesses
1,252
5 guesses
234
6 guesses
15
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
AST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
38%
All gray
29%

Feedback distribution

70 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

678
337
133
113
109
98
90
67
63
50
42
40
40
35
30
29
28
27
26
25
23
22
15
14
13
12
12
11
11
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SKATT:

29% chance
Suggested:
RIONE
14% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
6% chance
Suggested:
NOIRE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.8% →
RIONE 6.01 bits
14.3% →
CARLE 5.37 bits
5.6% →
NOIRE 5.04 bits
4.8% →
DRICE 5.00 bits
4.6% →
OUTER 5.21 bits
4.2% →
ROUSE 5.12 bits
3.8% →
GOIER 5.01 bits
2.8% →
CLINE 5.04 bits
2.7% →
LATER 4.56 bits
2.1% →
RIONE 4.42 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1K5A1T1T1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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