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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

STOVE

Yes, STOVE was the Wordle answer on March 30, 2022 (Wordle #284).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /stəʊv//stoʊv//sʈəʋ/

Noun

A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.

Noun

A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker.

Verb

To heat or dry, as in a stove.

“to stove feathers”

Verb

To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat.

“to stove orange trees”

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: March 30, 2022 (#284).

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

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How STOVE performs as a guess

STOVE 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 85.0% of games, misses completely in 15.0%, and leaves about 144 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,687 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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.

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___E S in the 1st position and E in the 5th position S__V_ S in the 1st position and V in the 4th position _T__E T in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

CAIRN ARIEL ROANY TAINT RAILE TREAT
Words starting with S Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.85 Entropy (bits)
144 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 75% of evaluated openers
1.10 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How STOVE 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#8,687 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, STOVE ranks #8,687 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
61
3 guesses
765
4 guesses
1,281
5 guesses
222
6 guesses
21
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
2 vowels
Common:
EOST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
37%
All gray
15%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L A N K
S T O V E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches STOVE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

92 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

353
272
172
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153
119
105
82
71
70
54
46
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing STOVE:

15% chance
Suggested:
CAIRN
12% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
7% chance
Suggested:
ROANY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.0% →
CAIRN 5.86 bits
11.5% →
ARIEL 5.20 bits
7.3% →
ROANY 4.90 bits
6.9% →
TAINT 5.35 bits
6.5% →
RAILE 4.43 bits
5.0% →
TREAT 4.68 bits
4.5% →
CLARY 4.77 bits
3.5% →
CLARY 4.28 bits
3.0% →
MARSH 4.47 bits
3.0% →
ROANY 4.11 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1T1O1V4E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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