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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

STORM

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.6% 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).

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 2,358 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 152 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,232 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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___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

Try next

LIANE LAIDE TAINT LEANY PLANE TREAT
Words starting with S Words ending with M

First-turn measures

4.91 Entropy (bits)
152 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 78% of evaluated openers
1.04 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 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
99.9% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#1,232 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, STORM 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 (3.45 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

103 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

410
259
201
127
124
87
85
78
74
58
56
49
46
42
36
35
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15

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 6.21 bits
11.0% →
LAIDE 5.43 bits
8.5% →
TAINT 5.31 bits
5.4% →
LEANY 4.83 bits
5.3% →
PLANE 5.28 bits
3.7% →
TREAT 4.73 bits
3.6% →
MAILE 5.15 bits
3.3% →
CORER 4.47 bits
3.1% →
LEASH 4.96 bits
2.5% →
CLADE 4.60 bits

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.