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SKIER

Yes, SKIER was the Wordle answer on May 27, 2024 (Wordle #1073).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈskiːə(ɹ)//ˈskaɪə(ɹ)/

Noun

One who skis.

“a professional skier”

Noun

A ball hit high in the air, often leading to a catch.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it SKYR.

Rhymes with SHIRE SPIRE AFIRE SWIRE QUIRE

In a sentence

Are you a good skier?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
How good a skier are you?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use SKIER in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 94.9% of possible answers.

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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: May 27, 2024 (#1073).

See the full page for that puzzle: May 27, 2024 (#1073).

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How SKIER performs as a guess

SKIER 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 86.6% of games, misses completely in 13.4%, and leaves about 123 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,935 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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___R S in the 1st position and R in the 5th position S__E_ S in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _K__R K in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position SK_ER S in the 1st position, K in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe SKIER 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.

5.08 Entropy (bits)
123 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.9% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SKIER 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#5,935 Rank among openers
Opening with SKIER left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.68 average. It ranks #5,935 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
63
3 guesses
872
4 guesses
1,170
5 guesses
233
6 guesses
13

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EIRS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
39%
All gray
13%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E D
S K I E R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SKIER in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

SKIER can come back 101 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

319 answers
237 answers
180 answers
155 answers
138 answers
97 answers
90 answers
82 answers
67 answers
61 answers
61 answers
53 answers
53 answers
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Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1K5I1E1R1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

MOULT DEALT HOARD ANTIC COATE SAULT

Strategy after playing SKIER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SKIER:

13% chance
Suggested:
MOULT
10% chance
Suggested:
DEALT
8% chance
Suggested:
HOARD

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.4% →
MOULT 5.62 bits
9.9% →
DEALT 5.53 bits
7.6% →
HOARD 4.98 bits
6.5% →
ANTIC 5.00 bits
5.8% →
COATE 4.73 bits
4.1% →
SAULT 4.52 bits
3.8% →
OLATE 3.32 bits
3.4% →
ALONE 4.11 bits
2.8% →
LASSO 4.72 bits
2.6% →
SLANT 4.27 bits

Research on SKIER

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

Optimal play

Opening with SKIER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,606 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 SKIER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, 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
SKIER sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 2 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.6 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).