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Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

STOAI

STOAI is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.

As an opener, it rules out about 95.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of stoa

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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

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

How STOAI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts STOAI as a guess, but the solver does not list it as a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 90.2% of games, misses completely in 9.8%, and leaves about 113 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,558 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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___I S in the 1st position and I in the 5th position S__A_ S in the 1st position and A in the 4th position

Try next

GLARE CURLY LINER HORDE CARLE TRITE
Words starting with S Words ending with I

First-turn measures

5.11 Entropy (bits)
113 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 88% of evaluated openers
0.84 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How STOAI 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#4,558 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, STOAI ranks #4,558 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
919
4 guesses
1,144
5 guesses
215
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
3 vowels
Common:
AIOST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
90%
Green tile
30%
All gray
10%

Feedback distribution

92 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

255
232
217
153
113
101
93
78
65
62
62
61
57
56
52
46
40
39
37
26
24
22
21
21
20
20
19
19
18
16

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing STOAI:

11% chance
Suggested:
GLARE
10% chance
Suggested:
CURLY
9% chance
Suggested:
LINER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

10.8% →
GLARE 5.37 bits
9.8% →
CURLY 5.45 bits
9.2% →
LINER 5.25 bits
6.5% →
HORDE 4.85 bits
4.8% →
CARLE 4.85 bits
4.3% →
TRITE 4.59 bits
3.9% →
CRANE 4.24 bits
3.3% →
BERET 5.06 bits
2.8% →
NADIR 4.49 bits
2.6% →
RENAL 4.60 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1T1O1A1I1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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