STOIC
Yes, STOIC was the Wordle answer on November 11, 2024 (Wordle #1241).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈstəʊ.ɪk//ˈstoʊ.ɪk//ˈstoːɪk/
- Noun
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Proponent of stoicism, a school of thought, from in 300 B.C.E. up to about the time of Marcus Aurelius, who holds that by cultivating an understanding of the logos, or natural law, one can be free of suffering.
- Noun
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A person indifferent to pleasure or pain.
- Adjective
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Of or relating to the Stoics or their ideas.
- Adjective
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Not affected by pain or distress.
Alternative forms: Stoick, stoick, Stoïc, Stoïck
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Latin stōicus (noun via Middle English Stoycis pl), from Ancient Greek Στωϊκός (Stōïkós), from Ποικίλη Στοά (Poikílē Stoá, “the Stoa Poikile”, literally “painted portico”), the portico in Athens where Zeno of Citium was teaching.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it STOHIHK.
Related meanings
Opposites emotional
In a sentence
The longer I remain alive the more stoic I become.
Marcus Aurelius, called the Philosopher, was a Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher.
Use STOIC in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 93.8% of possible answers.
Wordle status
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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: November 11, 2024 (#1241).
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See what the public sample says →How STOIC performs as a guess
STOIC 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 82.2% of games, misses completely in 17.8%, and leaves about 148 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,211 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe STOIC 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 STOIC 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 STOIC in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
STOIC can come back 96 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 STOIC; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Strategy after playing STOIC
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to STOIC.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing STOIC:
Research on STOIC
Game-tree analysis and word research for STOIC, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with STOIC, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,266 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.79 guesses at best and is rank #1,056 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.60, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, 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
- STOIC sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.3 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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).