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SMASH

Yes, SMASH was the Wordle answer on April 5, 2023 (Wordle #655).

As an opener, it rules out about 86.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /smæʃ/

Noun

The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.

“I could hear the screech of the brakes, then the horrible smash of cars colliding.”

Noun

A traffic collision.

“The driver and two passengers were badly injured in the smash.”

Verb

To break (something brittle) violently.

“The demolition team smashed the buildings to rubble.”

Verb

To be destroyed by being smashed.

“The crockery smashed as it hit the floor.”

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: April 5, 2023 (#655).

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

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How SMASH performs as a guess

SMASH 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 69.3% of games, misses completely in 30.7%, and leaves about 325 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,532 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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___H S in the 1st position and H in the 5th position S__S_ S in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _M__H M in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Try next

RIONE TALER TRINE MOILE TRICE ROUTE
Words starting with S Words ending with H

First-turn measures

3.95 Entropy (bits)
325 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
86.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 20% of evaluated openers
2.00 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SMASH 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#10,532 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SMASH ranks #10,532 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
780
4 guesses
1,214
5 guesses
299
6 guesses
17
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:
AS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
69%
Green tile
36%
All gray
31%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I C K
S W A S H
S M A S H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SMASH in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

75 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

725
381
174
139
110
92
70
65
55
48
46
44
33
30
25
19
18
18
17
17
15
13
12
12
12
11
11
9
9
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SMASH:

31% chance
Suggested:
RIONE
16% chance
Suggested:
TALER
7% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.7% →
RIONE 6.00 bits
16.2% →
TALER 5.54 bits
7.4% →
TRINE 5.16 bits
5.9% →
TRINE 4.96 bits
4.7% →
MOILE 5.17 bits
3.9% →
TRICE 5.37 bits
3.0% →
ROUTE 4.46 bits
2.8% →
MORNE 4.46 bits
2.3% →
RUOTE 4.90 bits
2.0% →
LEANT 3.88 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1M3A1S1H4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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