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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

STASH

Yes, STASH was the Wordle answer on February 16, 2024 (Wordle #972).

As an opener, it rules out about 88.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /stæʃ/

Noun

A collection, sometimes hidden.

“They had quite a stash of food saved up for emergencies.”

Noun

A place where drugs are stored.

“The dealers managed to store the dope in the stash just in time to avoid being caught by the police.”

Verb

To hide or store away for later use.

“He stashed his liquor in the cabinet under the bar.”

Alternative forms: 'stache, stache

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: February 16, 2024 (#972).

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

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How STASH performs as a guess

STASH 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 72.9% of games, misses completely in 27.1%, and leaves about 266 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,586 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

S___H S in the 1st position and H in the 5th position S__S_ S in the 1st position and S in the 4th position

Try next

RIONE CARLE ROUET CLINE DRICE TAROT
Words starting with S Words ending with H

First-turn measures

4.26 Entropy (bits)
266 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
88.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 36% of evaluated openers
1.69 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How STASH 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#9,586 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, STASH ranks #9,586 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
30
3 guesses
836
4 guesses
1,186
5 guesses
282
6 guesses
18
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)
73%
Green tile
36%
All gray
27%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches STASH in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

76 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

639
334
201
130
118
117
64
43
42
39
39
37
35
33
33
32
25
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10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing STASH:

27% chance
Suggested:
RIONE
14% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
9% chance
Suggested:
ROUET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.1% →
RIONE 5.99 bits
14.2% →
CARLE 5.33 bits
8.5% →
ROUET 5.49 bits
5.5% →
CLINE 5.15 bits
5.0% →
DRICE 4.72 bits
5.0% →
TAROT 4.59 bits
2.7% →
NOIRE 5.10 bits
1.8% →
CLONE 4.04 bits
1.8% →
CRINE 4.27 bits
1.7% →
ROUTE 3.97 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1T1A1S1H4
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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