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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier for first-turn info

STAND

Yes, STAND has been the Wordle answer on August 15, 2021 (Wordle #57) and April 19, 2026 (Wordle #1765).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈstænd/[ˈstænd]/ˈstand/

Verb

To position or be positioned physically:

“Here I stand, wondering what to do next.”

Verb

To position or be positioned mentally:

“He stands to get a good price for the house.”

Noun

The act of standing.

Noun

A defensive position or effort.

“The Commander says we will make our stand here.”

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 2 times

Past Wordle answer: August 15, 2021 (#57); April 19, 2026 (#1765).

See the full page for each puzzle: August 15, 2021 (#57); April 19, 2026 (#1765).

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

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How STAND performs as a guess

STAND 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 83.6% of games, misses completely in 16.4%, and leaves about 135 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #320 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.57 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___D S in the 1st position and D in the 5th position S__N_ S in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _T__D T in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe STAND 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.

5.03 Entropy (bits)
135 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 85% of evaluated openers
0.91 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How STAND 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.

3.57 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.66 Spread of game lengths
#320 Rank among openers
Opening with STAND left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.66 means those games clustered within about 0.66 of a guess of the 3.57 average. It ranks #320 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
63
3 guesses
1,028
4 guesses
1,112
5 guesses
139
6 guesses
9
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
1 vowels
Common:
ANST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
34%
All gray
16%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I N K
S C A N T
S T A N D

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches STAND in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

STAND can come back 104 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

389 answers
212 answers
187 answers
126 answers
106 answers
99 answers
99 answers
88 answers
87 answers
74 answers
52 answers
47 answers
41 answers
40 answers
38 answers
35 answers
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34 answers
33 answers
27 answers
27 answers
26 answers
26 answers
25 answers
22 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
15 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1T1A1N1D2
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Try next

PROLE CARLE ROUET LINER PLIER DROLE

Strategy after playing STAND

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing STAND:

16% chance
Suggested:
PROLE
9% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
8% chance
Suggested:
ROUET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.4% →
PROLE 5.95 bits
8.9% →
CARLE 5.48 bits
7.9% →
ROUET 5.40 bits
5.3% →
LINER 5.09 bits
4.5% →
PLIER 5.16 bits
4.2% →
DROLE 5.28 bits
4.2% →
CARLE 4.68 bits
3.7% →
HORSE 4.99 bits
3.7% →
CRIME 4.88 bits
3.1% →
CARLE 4.60 bits

Research on STAND

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

Optimal play

Opening with STAND, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.62 guesses and ranks #626 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 STAND can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.57, at or below the proven-optimal 3.62, 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 STAND.

Rhymes with GRAND BRAND BLAND GLAND SHAND

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, STAND is a kind of support or place.

Synonyms support base bear suffer stomach resist

Opposites sit lie YIELD

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
STAND sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 138 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A1); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 5, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 64 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.0 of 5).

In a sentence

You don't have to stand.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
What do you stand for?
© tatoeba.org contributor Teangloir (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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).