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STOOL

Yes, STOOL was the Wordle answer on July 13, 2021 (Wordle #24).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /stuːl//stʉl/

Noun

A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.

Noun

A plant that has been cut down until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.

Verb

To produce stool: to defecate.

Verb

To cut down (a plant) until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.

Alternative forms: stoole

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: July 13, 2021 (#24).

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

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How STOOL performs as a guess

STOOL is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 77.2% of games, misses completely in 22.8%, and leaves about 212 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,069 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

S___L S in the 1st position and L in the 5th position S__O_ S in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _T__L T in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in STOOL.

First-turn measures

All four describe STOOL 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.

4.49 Entropy (bits)
212 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 51% of evaluated openers
1.46 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How STOOL 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#6,069 Rank among openers
Opening with STOOL left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.69 average. It ranks #6,069 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
56
3 guesses
869
4 guesses
1,195
5 guesses
217
6 guesses
15
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
LOST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
33%
All gray
23%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches STOOL in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

STOOL can come back 89 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

541 answers
266 answers
237 answers
145 answers
141 answers
99 answers
79 answers
65 answers
59 answers
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56 answers
47 answers
41 answers
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32 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
21 answers
17 answers
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15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1T1O1O1L1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Try next

RAINE TRAIT BAILE MORNE CARNE RAISE

Strategy after playing STOOL

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to STOOL.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing STOOL:

23% chance
Suggested:
RAINE
11% chance
Suggested:
TRAIT
10% chance
Suggested:
BAILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.8% →
RAINE 6.14 bits
11.2% →
TRAIT 5.62 bits
10.0% →
BAILE 5.34 bits
6.1% →
MORNE 5.14 bits
5.9% →
CARNE 5.27 bits
4.2% →
RAISE 5.14 bits
3.3% →
RAINE 4.61 bits
2.7% →
CRANE 4.77 bits
2.5% →
RAILE 4.59 bits
2.5% →
TRINE 4.28 bits

Research on STOOL

Game-tree analysis and word research for STOOL, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with STOOL, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #7,967 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.87 guesses at best and is rank #3,348 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.75, 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it STOOL.

Rhymes with DROOL GHOUL SPOOL JOULE BRULE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, STOOL is a kind of seat or waste.

Synonyms can make shit crap pot toilet

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
STOOL sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 3 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 7, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 86 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.0 of 5).

In a sentence

Don't play with the stool.
© tatoeba.org contributor AlanF_US (CC BY 2.0 FR)
He got off his stool.
© tatoeba.org contributor CH (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).