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STORM

Yes, STORM was the Wordle answer on August 17, 2024 (Wordle #1155).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /stɔːm//stɔɹm/

Noun

Any disturbed state of the atmosphere causing destructive or unpleasant weather, especially one affecting the earth's surface involving strong winds (leading to high waves at sea) and usually lightning, thunder, and precipitation.

“The boat was torn to pieces in the storm, and nobody survived.”

Noun

A heavy expulsion or fall of things (as blows, objects which are thrown, etc.).

“a storm of bullets”

Verb

Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have strong winds and usually lightning and thunder, and/or hail, rain, or snow.

“It stormed throughout the night.”

Verb

To make (someone or something) stormy; to agitate (someone or something) violently.

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: August 17, 2024 (#1155).

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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 STORM performs as a guess

STORM 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 82.6% of games, misses completely in 17.4%, and leaves about 153 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,232 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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___M S in the 1st position and M in the 5th position S__R_ S in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _T__M T in the 2nd position and M in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe STORM 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.

4.90 Entropy (bits)
153 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 78% of evaluated openers
1.05 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How STORM 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#1,232 Rank among openers
Opening with STORM left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.60 average. It ranks #1,232 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
60
3 guesses
991
4 guesses
1,132
5 guesses
150
6 guesses
17
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
1 vowels
Common:
ORST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
29%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S N O U T
A M I T Y
S T O R M

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches STORM in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

STORM can come back 103 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

414 answers
260 answers
204 answers
128 answers
125 answers
87 answers
85 answers
78 answers
75 answers
60 answers
56 answers
49 answers
46 answers
42 answers
36 answers
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26 answers
22 answers
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Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1T1O1R1M3
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

LIANE LAIDE TAINT LEANY PLANE TREAT

Strategy after playing STORM

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing STORM:

17% chance
Suggested:
LIANE
11% chance
Suggested:
LAIDE
9% chance
Suggested:
TAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.4% →
LIANE 6.22 bits
11.0% →
LAIDE 5.43 bits
8.6% →
TAINT 5.33 bits
5.4% →
LEANY 4.83 bits
5.3% →
PLANE 5.27 bits
3.7% →
TREAT 4.74 bits
3.6% →
MAILE 5.15 bits
3.3% →
CORER 4.47 bits
3.2% →
LEASH 4.95 bits
2.5% →
CLADE 4.61 bits

Research on STORM

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

Optimal play

Opening with STORM, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,222 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.76 guesses at best and is rank #411 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 3.66, 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 STAWRM.

Rhymes with SWARM

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, STORM is a kind of disruption or assault.

Synonyms FORCE surprise rage ramp tempest

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
STORM sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 46 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 A2); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 90 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.

In a sentence

A storm is on its way.
© tatoeba.org contributor Nuel (CC BY 2.0 FR)
There is going to be a storm.
© 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).