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SKIRT

Yes, SKIRT was the Wordle answer on January 2, 2023 (Wordle #562).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /skɜːt//skɚt//skɪɾt/

Noun

A separate article of clothing, usually worn by women and girls, that hangs from the waist and covers the lower torso and part of the legs.

Noun

A similar part of a dress or robe, etc., that hangs below the waist.

Verb

To be on or form the border of.

“The plain was skirted by rows of trees.”

Verb

To move around or along the border of; to avoid the center of.

“skirt a mountain”

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: January 2, 2023 (#562).

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

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How SKIRT performs as a guess

SKIRT 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 81.6% of games, misses completely in 18.4%, and leaves about 160 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,454 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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___T S in the 1st position and T in the 5th position S__R_ S in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _K__T K in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe SKIRT 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.

4.87 Entropy (bits)
160 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 76% of evaluated openers
1.07 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SKIRT 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#2,454 Rank among openers
Opening with SKIRT 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 3.63 average. It ranks #2,454 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
48
3 guesses
1,019
4 guesses
1,063
5 guesses
200
6 guesses
21
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
1 vowels
Common:
IRST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
36%
All gray
18%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L U I T
S H I R T
S K I R T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SKIRT in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

SKIRT can come back 95 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

438 answers
295 answers
144 answers
124 answers
100 answers
87 answers
75 answers
72 answers
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27 answers
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Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1K5I1R1T1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

ALONE CANOE LIANE HAOLE PLANE CLADE

Strategy after playing SKIRT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SKIRT:

18% chance
Suggested:
ALONE
12% chance
Suggested:
CANOE
6% chance
Suggested:
LIANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.4% →
ALONE 6.03 bits
12.4% →
CANOE 5.29 bits
6.1% →
LIANE 5.05 bits
5.2% →
HAOLE 5.34 bits
4.2% →
PLANE 5.14 bits
3.7% →
HAOLE 5.11 bits
3.2% →
ALONE 5.02 bits
3.0% →
CLADE 4.92 bits
2.9% →
TARTE 4.59 bits
2.9% →
CANOE 5.10 bits

Research on SKIRT

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

Optimal play

Opening with SKIRT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,381 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.78 guesses at best and is rank #891 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.66, 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 SKURT.

Rhymes with SHIRT ALERT FLIRT EXERT OVERT

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SKIRT is a kind of covering or garment.

Synonyms ring border bird duck CHICK doll

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SKIRT sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 9 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 A1); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 77 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.2 of 5).

In a sentence

This is my new skirt.
© tatoeba.org contributor EugeneGS (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Which skirt do you like?
© 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; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).