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SQUAT

Yes, SQUAT was the Wordle answer on March 3, 2023 (Wordle #622).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /skwɒt//skwɑt//skwɔt/

Adjective

Relatively short or low, and thick or broad.

Adjective

Sitting on one's heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering or crouching.

Noun

A position assumed by bending deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.

Noun

Any of various modes of callisthenic exercises performed by moving the body and bending at least one knee.

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: March 3, 2023 (#622).

See the full page for that puzzle: March 3, 2023 (#622).

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

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How SQUAT performs as a guess

SQUAT 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 76.5% of games, misses completely in 23.5%, and leaves about 233 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,094 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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__A_ S in the 1st position and A in the 4th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe SQUAT 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.

4.35 Entropy (bits)
233 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 42% of evaluated openers
1.60 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SQUAT 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#10,094 Rank among openers
Opening with SQUAT left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.76 average. It ranks #10,094 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
37
3 guesses
807
4 guesses
1,207
5 guesses
269
6 guesses
30
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
2 vowels
Common:
ASTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
35%
All gray
24%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C L I N T
G A M U T
S Q U A T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SQUAT in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

SQUAT can come back 72 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

557 answers
378 answers
143 answers
127 answers
126 answers
92 answers
92 answers
66 answers
65 answers
64 answers
59 answers
57 answers
44 answers
37 answers
31 answers
25 answers
25 answers
25 answers
22 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1Q10U1A1T1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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

Try next

RIONE CARLE TRITE PLIER CRIME TARTE

Strategy after playing SQUAT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SQUAT:

23% chance
Suggested:
RIONE
16% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
6% chance
Suggested:
TRITE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.5% →
RIONE 5.95 bits
15.9% →
CARLE 5.40 bits
6.0% →
TRITE 5.33 bits
5.3% →
PLIER 5.14 bits
5.3% →
CRIME 4.58 bits
3.9% →
TARTE 4.79 bits
3.9% →
CLEAR 4.72 bits
2.8% →
PARLE 4.07 bits
2.7% →
GOIER 4.71 bits
2.7% →
POIRE 4.93 bits

Research on SQUAT

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

Optimal play

Opening with SQUAT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,896 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 SQUAT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.76, at or below the proven-optimal 3.80, 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 SKWAHT.

Rhymes with YACHT LOTTE SURAT ALLOT STOTT

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SQUAT is a kind of exercise or amount.

Synonyms shit jack chunky crouch little low

Opposites high tall

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SQUAT sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 3 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 9, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 73 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.2 of 5).

In a sentence

They live in a squat.
© tatoeba.org contributor sundown (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Are you able to squat?
© tatoeba.org contributor Miktsoanit (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); Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).