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STORE

Yes, STORE was the Wordle answer on November 28, 2021 (Wordle #162).

As an opener, it rules out about 96.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /stɔː//stɔɹ//sto(ː)ɹ/

Noun

A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.

“This building used to be a store for old tires.”

Noun

A supply held in storage.

“They keep a store of canned goods in their basement.”

Verb

To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.

“I'll store these books in the attic.”

Verb

To contain.

“The cabinets store all the food the mice would like.”

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: November 28, 2021 (#162).

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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 STORE performs as a guess

STORE 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 89.5% of games, misses completely in 10.5%, and leaves about 83 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #488 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 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___E S in the 1st position and E in the 5th position S__R_ S in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _T__E T in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position ST_RE S in the 1st position, T in the 2nd position, R in the 4th position, and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe STORE 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.

5.61 Entropy (bits)
83 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
96.5% Avg ruled out
In the top 1% for first-turn entropy
0.33 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How STORE 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.

3.58 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#488 Rank among openers
Opening with STORE left 4 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 3.58 average. It ranks #488 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
90
3 guesses
986
4 guesses
1,098
5 guesses
160
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EORST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
90%
Green tile
40%
All gray
10%

Example solver route

R O A T E
T R O P E
S T O R E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches STORE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

STORE can come back 127 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

250 answers
142 answers
139 answers
118 answers
116 answers
113 answers
100 answers
83 answers
76 answers
59 answers
55 answers
53 answers
52 answers
42 answers
41 answers
41 answers
38 answers
38 answers
34 answers
32 answers
29 answers
29 answers
25 answers
24 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1T1O1R1E1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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

Try next

PLAIN AIDER LADEN EAGLE TAINT COALY

Strategy after playing STORE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing STORE:

11% chance
Suggested:
PLAIN
6% chance
Suggested:
AIDER
6% chance
Suggested:
LADEN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

10.5% →
PLAIN 5.67 bits
6.0% →
AIDER 4.20 bits
5.9% →
LADEN 5.25 bits
5.0% →
EAGLE 4.59 bits
4.9% →
TAINT 5.22 bits
4.8% →
COALY 4.64 bits
4.2% →
DRAIN 4.82 bits
3.5% →
SNAIL 4.38 bits
3.2% →
DEALT 4.54 bits
2.5% →
CAROM 4.54 bits

Research on STORE

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

Optimal play

Opening with STORE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.60 guesses and ranks #157 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with STORE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.58, at or below the proven-optimal 3.60, 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 STAWR.

Rhymes with FLOOR SCORE SHORE CORPS ADORE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, STORE is a kind of outlet or accumulation.

Synonyms STOCK shop fund memory storage DEPOT

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
STORE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 105 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A1); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 66 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.9 of 5).

In a sentence

He was at the store.
© tatoeba.org contributor jeanne (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Do you have a store?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (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).