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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

SMOKE

Yes, SMOKE was the Wordle answer on September 20, 2024 (Wordle #1189).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /sməʊk//smoʊk//sməʉk/

Noun

The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.

Noun

A cigarette.

“Can I bum a smoke off you?”

Verb

To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette or cigar, burning material in a pipe, etc.

“He's smoking his pipe.”

Verb

To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.

“Do you smoke?”

Alternative forms: smoak

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: September 20, 2024 (#1189).

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

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How SMOKE performs as a guess

SMOKE 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 83.3% of games, misses completely in 16.7%, and leaves about 175 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,955 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___E S in the 1st position and E in the 5th position S__K_ S in the 1st position and K in the 4th position _M__E M in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIL ALTER TONAL LAIRY SAULT FRONT
Words starting with S Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.62 Entropy (bits)
175 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 60% of evaluated openers
1.33 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SMOKE 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
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#8,955 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SMOKE ranks #8,955 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
61
3 guesses
774
4 guesses
1,253
5 guesses
243
6 guesses
21
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
38%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SMOKE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

89 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

394
352
199
185
110
92
79
79
65
52
52
50
49
42
40
39
36
32
28
28
25
24
24
18
15
15
14
13
13
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SMOKE:

17% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
15% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
8% chance
Suggested:
TONAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.7% →
TRAIL 6.03 bits
14.9% →
ALTER 5.33 bits
8.4% →
TONAL 4.95 bits
7.8% →
LAIRY 4.43 bits
4.7% →
SAULT 4.68 bits
3.9% →
FRONT 4.12 bits
3.4% →
LAIRY 4.55 bits
3.4% →
TRASH 4.61 bits
2.8% →
OWNER 4.10 bits
2.2% →
MOLAR 4.34 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1M3O1K5E1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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