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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

STOOD

Yes, STOOD was the Wordle answer on April 17, 2025 (Wordle #1398).

As an opener, it rules out about 88.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /stʊd//stʉd/

Verb

simple past and past participle of stand

“This morning a bloke stood next to me wearing nothing but sandals.”

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: April 17, 2025 (#1398).

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

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How STOOD performs as a guess

STOOD 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 72.0% of games, misses completely in 28.0%, and leaves about 270 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,934 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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___D S in the 1st position and D in the 5th position S__O_ S in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _T__D T in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

RAILE TREAT PLANE CARLE CRANE RANCE
Words starting with S Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.19 Entropy (bits)
270 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
88.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 32% of evaluated openers
1.76 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How STOOD 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#6,934 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, STOOD ranks #6,934 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
48
3 guesses
836
4 guesses
1,243
5 guesses
214
6 guesses
9
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
OST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
32%
All gray
28%

Example solver route

R O A T E
P U N C H
D I V O T
S T O O D

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches STOOD in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

79 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

660
296
175
151
130
121
73
63
61
57
51
44
43
35
32
27
26
23
16
15
15
13
13
11
11
10
10
10
10
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing STOOD:

28% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
13% chance
Suggested:
TREAT
7% chance
Suggested:
PLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.0% →
RAILE 6.24 bits
12.6% →
TREAT 5.59 bits
7.4% →
PLANE 5.26 bits
6.4% →
CARLE 5.23 bits
5.5% →
RAILE 5.43 bits
5.1% →
RAILE 5.12 bits
3.1% →
CRANE 4.92 bits
2.7% →
RANCE 4.34 bits
2.6% →
ARIEL 4.78 bits
2.4% →
TASER 4.45 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1T1O1O1D2
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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