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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

STING

Yes, STING was the Wordle answer on October 3, 2022 (Wordle #471).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈstɪŋ//ˈstɪŋɡ/

Noun

A bump left on the skin after having been stung.

“Look at this nasty hornet sting: it's turned blue!”

Noun

A puncture made by an insect or arachnid in an attack, usually including the injection of venom.

“She died from a bee sting.”

Verb

To hurt, usually by introducing poison or a sharp point, or both.

Verb

To puncture with the stinger.

“A mosquito stung me on the arm.”

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: October 3, 2022 (#471).

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

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How STING performs as a guess

STING 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 76.8% of games, misses completely in 23.2%, and leaves about 199 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,959 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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___G S in the 1st position and G in the 5th position S__N_ S in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _T__G T in the 2nd position and G in the 5th position

Try next

CARLE TREAT MORAE PARLE PALER ALURE
Words starting with S Words ending with G

First-turn measures

4.64 Entropy (bits)
199 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 61% of evaluated openers
1.31 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How STING 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#1,959 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, STING ranks #1,959 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
977
4 guesses
1,154
5 guesses
156
6 guesses
14
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
INST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
30%
All gray
23%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S H U N T
S T I N G

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches STING in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

93 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

547
246
138
138
126
115
108
79
67
56
55
52
43
33
31
31
27
26
26
22
20
20
19
16
15
14
14
13
12
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing STING:

23% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
10% chance
Suggested:
TREAT
6% chance
Suggested:
MORAE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.2% →
CARLE 6.24 bits
10.4% →
TREAT 5.61 bits
5.9% →
MORAE 5.19 bits
5.9% →
PARLE 5.42 bits
5.3% →
PALER 5.16 bits
4.9% →
ALURE 5.44 bits
4.6% →
HAOLE 5.15 bits
3.4% →
CARLE 5.04 bits
2.8% →
TRAIT 4.34 bits
2.4% →
TARSE 4.57 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1T1I1N1G2
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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