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STIFF

Yes, STIFF was the Wordle answer on February 9, 2024 (Wordle #965).

As an opener, it rules out about 84.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /stɪf/

Adjective

Rigid; hard to bend; inflexible.

Adjective

Inflexible; rigid.

Noun

An average person, usually male, of no particular distinction, skill, or education.

“working stiff”

Noun

A person who is deceived, as a mark or pigeon in a swindle.

“She convinced the stiff to go to her hotel room, where her henchman was waiting to rob him.”

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 9, 2024 (#965).

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

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How STIFF performs as a guess

STIFF 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 65.9% of games, misses completely in 34.1%, and leaves about 364 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,982 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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___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

CARLE TREAT LINER PARLE HAOLE CRANE
Words starting with S Words ending with F

First-turn measures

3.69 Entropy (bits)
364 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
84.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 11% of evaluated openers
2.26 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How STIFF 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#11,982 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, STIFF ranks #11,982 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
688
4 guesses
1,318
5 guesses
286
6 guesses
19
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:
IST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
66%
Green tile
26%
All gray
34%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S H U N T
A C O E L
S T I F F

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches STIFF in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

63 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

805
287
194
182
122
121
90
71
62
50
40
39
37
27
24
22
21
15
9
9
8
8
8
7
6
6
6
6
6
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing STIFF:

34% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
12% chance
Suggested:
TREAT
8% chance
Suggested:
LINER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

34.1% →
CARLE 6.17 bits
12.2% →
TREAT 5.62 bits
8.2% →
LINER 5.18 bits
7.7% →
PARLE 5.34 bits
5.2% →
HAOLE 5.15 bits
5.1% →
CRANE 4.98 bits
3.8% →
TRAIT 4.37 bits
3.0% →
ALURE 5.01 bits
2.6% →
AROSE 4.62 bits
2.1% →
ROAKE 4.26 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1T1I1F4F4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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