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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).

See the full page for that puzzle: 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 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 69.1% of games, misses completely in 30.9%, and leaves about 328 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,532 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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___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

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

First-turn measures

All four describe SMASH 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.

3.95 Entropy (bits)
328 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 opening guess: previous 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#10,532 Rank among openers
Opening with SMASH left 1 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 3.77 average. It 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 (3.46 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

SMASH can come back 75 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

733 answers
383 answers
175 answers
139 answers
111 answers
92 answers
70 answers
65 answers
55 answers
48 answers
46 answers
44 answers
34 answers
31 answers
27 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers

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.

Try next

RIONE TALER TRINE MOILE TRICE ROUTE

Strategy after playing SMASH

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

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.

30.9% →
RIONE 6.01 bits
16.1% →
TALER 5.53 bits
7.4% →
TRINE 5.15 bits
5.9% →
TRINE 4.96 bits
4.7% →
MOILE 5.17 bits
3.9% →
TRICE 5.37 bits
2.9% →
ROUTE 4.46 bits
2.7% →
MORNE 4.46 bits
2.3% →
RUOTE 4.90 bits
2.0% →
LEANT 3.88 bits

Research on SMASH

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

Optimal play

Opening with SMASH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.83 guesses and ranks #11,838 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.97 guesses at best and is rank #5,729 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.77, at or below the proven-optimal 3.83, 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 SMASH.

Rhymes with CRASH FLASH TRASH CLASH SLASH

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SMASH is a kind of blow or collision.

Synonyms hit BREAK strike CRASH belt KNOCK

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SMASH sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 12 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 5, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 72 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.7 of 5).

In a sentence

You make me want to smash your face in.
© tatoeba.org contributor Nuel (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Remember to smash that like button!
© tatoeba.org contributor hecko (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).