SQUAT
Yes, SQUAT was the Wordle answer on March 3, 2023 (Wordle #622).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /skwɒt//skwɑt//skwɔt/
- Adjective
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Relatively short or low, and thick or broad.
- Adjective
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Sitting on one's heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering or crouching.
- Noun
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A position assumed by bending deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
- Noun
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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.
How it sounds
One syllable Say it SKWAHT.
Rhymes with YACHT LOTTE SURAT ALLOT STOTT
Related meanings
Synonyms shit jack chunky crouch little low
Opposites high tall
In a sentence
They live in a squat.
Are you able to squat?
Use SQUAT in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 90.2% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: March 3, 2023 (#622).
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See what the public sample says →SQUAT in Connections
7 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . Showing the 5 most recent. A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #1082
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SQUAT appeared in GET LOW (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #892
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SQUAT appeared in STOCKY (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #741
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SQUAT appeared in STOCKY (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #323
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SQUAT appeared in EXERCISES (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #302
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SQUAT appeared in SLANG FOR ZERO (blue group).
How SQUAT performs as a guess
SQUAT is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 76.6% of games, misses completely in 23.4%, 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
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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.
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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
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:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for SQUAT; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
Try next
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:
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.
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).
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).