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STONE

Yes, STONE was the Wordle answer on September 21, 2023 (Wordle #824).

As an opener, it rules out about 96.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /stəʊ̯n//stoʊ̯n//stɐʉ̯n/

Noun

A hard earthen substance that can form rocks; especially, such substance when regarded as a building material.

Noun

A piece of such material: a block of stone, rock or a pebble.

Adjective

Constructed of stone.

“stone walls”

Adjective

Having the appearance of stone.

“stone pot”

Alternative forms: styen, stean

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: September 21, 2023 (#824).

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

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How STONE performs as a guess

STONE 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 89.0% of games, misses completely in 11.0%, and leaves about 95 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #677 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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___E S in the 1st position and E in the 5th position S__N_ S in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _T__E T in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

LAIRY CEDAR GLARE MOLAR TRAIT HEART
Words starting with S Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.44 Entropy (bits)
95 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
96.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 98% of evaluated openers
0.51 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How STONE 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#677 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, STONE ranks #677 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
80
3 guesses
979
4 guesses
1,124
5 guesses
156
6 guesses
11
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
2 vowels
Common:
ENOST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
41%
All gray
11%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L A N K
S T O N E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches STONE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

118 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

260
217
141
129
121
107
78
70
70
66
61
54
47
45
42
37
35
33
29
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing STONE:

11% chance
Suggested:
LAIRY
9% chance
Suggested:
CEDAR
6% chance
Suggested:
GLARE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.0% →
LAIRY 5.66 bits
9.2% →
CEDAR 5.31 bits
6.0% →
GLARE 4.59 bits
5.5% →
MOLAR 5.15 bits
5.1% →
TRAIT 5.16 bits
4.5% →
HEART 4.71 bits
3.3% →
CLARY 4.89 bits
3.0% →
MANIC 4.64 bits
3.0% →
ARIEL 4.63 bits
2.8% →
MARSH 4.56 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1T1O1N1E1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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