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SQUID

Yes, SQUID was the Wordle answer on January 20, 2025 (Wordle #1311).

As an opener, it rules out about 85.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /skwɪd/

Noun

Any of several carnivorous marine cephalopod mollusks, of the order Teuthida, having a mantle, eight arms, and a pair of tentacles

Noun

A fishhook with a piece of bright lead, bone, or other substance fastened on its shank to imitate a squid.

Verb

To fish with a squid fishhook.

Verb

To cause squidding (an improper, partial, parachute inflation, that results in the sides of the parachute folding in on the center, and pulsating back and forth).

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: January 20, 2025 (#1311).

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

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How SQUID performs as a guess

SQUID 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 67.6% of games, misses completely in 32.4%, and leaves about 332 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,470 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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___D S in the 1st position and D in the 5th position S__I_ S in the 1st position and I in the 4th position

Try next

CARLE TRINE PLATE PRATE MARLE DROLE
Words starting with S Words ending with D

First-turn measures

3.83 Entropy (bits)
332 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
85.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 16% of evaluated openers
2.12 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SQUID 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#11,470 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SQUID ranks #11,470 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
31
3 guesses
750
4 guesses
1,257
5 guesses
289
6 guesses
23
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:
ISU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
30%
All gray
32%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
S Q U I B
S Q U I D

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SQUID in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

59 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

765
275
201
136
130
127
85
81
65
57
40
39
33
29
26
25
21
17
17
16
15
14
14
13
13
11
11
9
7
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SQUID:

32% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
12% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
9% chance
Suggested:
PLATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.4% →
CARLE 6.21 bits
11.7% →
TRINE 5.39 bits
8.5% →
PLATE 5.40 bits
5.8% →
PRATE 5.43 bits
5.5% →
MARLE 4.82 bits
5.4% →
DROLE 5.43 bits
3.6% →
TRACE 4.86 bits
3.4% →
CARNE 4.94 bits
2.8% →
LEANT 4.02 bits
2.4% →
DROLE 4.46 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1Q10U1I1D2
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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