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STAFF

Yes, STAFF was the Wordle answer on July 23, 2021 (Wordle #34).

As an opener, it rules out about 87.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /stɑːf/[stɑːf][stäːf]

Noun

A long, straight, thick wooden rod or stick, especially one used to assist in walking.

Noun

A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written; a stave.

Verb

To supply (a business, volunteer organization, etc.) with employees or staff members.

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: July 23, 2021 (#34).

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

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How STAFF performs as a guess

STAFF 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 72.1% of games, misses completely in 27.9%, and leaves about 294 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,405 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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___F S in the 1st position and F in the 5th position S__F_ S in the 1st position and F in the 4th position

Try next

RIONE CARLE NOIRE DRICE TAROT POIRE
Words starting with S Words ending with F

First-turn measures

3.88 Entropy (bits)
294 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
87.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 17% of evaluated openers
2.07 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How STAFF 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#11,405 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, STAFF ranks #11,405 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
33
3 guesses
700
4 guesses
1,351
5 guesses
252
6 guesses
16
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
AST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
27%
All gray
28%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I N K
S H A F T
S T A F F

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches STAFF in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

61 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

658
338
245
155
124
124
98
70
50
48
48
40
37
36
36
26
24
21
18
18
13
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9
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8
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5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing STAFF:

28% chance
Suggested:
RIONE
14% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
10% chance
Suggested:
RIONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.9% →
RIONE 6.01 bits
14.3% →
CARLE 5.37 bits
10.4% →
RIONE 5.44 bits
6.6% →
NOIRE 5.00 bits
5.3% →
DRICE 4.91 bits
5.3% →
TAROT 4.51 bits
4.2% →
POIRE 5.09 bits
3.0% →
RIONE 4.92 bits
2.1% →
PLORE 3.54 bits
2.0% →
CRINE 4.30 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1T1A1F4F4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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