STILL
Yes, STILL was the Wordle answer on January 23, 2024 (Wordle #948).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈstɪl/[ˈstɪl]/ˈstɪo̯/
- Adjective
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Not moving; calm.
“Sit there and stay still!”
- Adjective
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Not effervescing; not sparkling.
“still water; still wines”
- Adverb
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Without motion.
“They stood still until the guard was out of sight.”
- Adverb
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Up to a time, as in the preceding time.
“Is it still raining? It was still raining five minutes ago.”
Alternative forms: stil, stille, styll, stylle
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English stille (“motionless, stationary”), from Old English stille (“still, quiet”), from Proto-West Germanic *stillī, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)telH- (“to be silent; to be still”).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it STIHL.
Rhymes with UNTIL SKILL CHILL DRILL GRILL
Related meanings
Synonyms even however yet QUIET calm silence
Opposites moving sparkling running NOISY
In a sentence
Are you still with me?
Are you still in there?
Use STILL in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 90.7% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: January 23, 2024 (#948).
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See what the public sample says →STILL in Connections
10 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . Showing the 5 most recent. A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #1224
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STILL appeared in PHOTO (green group).
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· Puzzle #1126
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STILL appeared in UNDISTURBED, AS WATER (green group).
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· Puzzle #1015
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STILL appeared in PICTURE TAKEN FROM A FILM (green group).
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· Puzzle #949
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STILL appeared in UNMOVING (green group).
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· Puzzle #931
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STILL appeared in UNMOVING (green group).
How STILL performs as a guess
STILL is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 75.2% of games, misses completely in 24.8%, and leaves about 223 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,251 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe STILL 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How STILL 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches STILL in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
STILL can come back 87 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for STILL; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
Try next
Strategy after playing STILL
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to STILL.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing STILL:
Research on STILL
Game-tree analysis and word research for STILL, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with STILL, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #8,052 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.88 guesses at best and is rank #3,735 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.75, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- STILL sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 832 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.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (2.6 of 5).
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; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).