5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

STRAW

Yes, STRAW was the Wordle answer on June 30, 2023 (Wordle #741).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /stɹɔː//stɹɔ//stɹɑ/

Noun

A dried stalk of a cereal plant.

Noun

Such dried stalks considered collectively; this bulk matter may be a chief salable product, a by-product, fodder, bedding, or green manure, depending on region and on current market conditions.

Adjective

Made of straw.

“straw hat”

Adjective

Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.

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: June 30, 2023 (#741).

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

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How STRAW performs as a guess

STRAW 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 83.4% of games, misses completely in 16.6%, and leaves about 148 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,979 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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___W S in the 1st position and W in the 5th position S__A_ S in the 1st position and A in the 4th position

Try next

MOILE CLINE PRIED TITLE CADRE ROUET
Words starting with S Words ending with W

First-turn measures

4.86 Entropy (bits)
148 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 75% of evaluated openers
1.09 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How STRAW 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#2,979 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, STRAW ranks #2,979 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
923
4 guesses
1,195
5 guesses
163
6 guesses
13
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:
ARST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
28%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S P I A L
S T R A W

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches STRAW in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

98 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

391
225
220
164
125
103
100
76
65
54
52
52
45
45
40
34
33
31
29
28
28
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14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing STRAW:

17% chance
Suggested:
MOILE
10% chance
Suggested:
CLINE
9% chance
Suggested:
PRIED

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.6% →
MOILE 5.90 bits
9.5% →
CLINE 5.43 bits
9.3% →
PRIED 5.16 bits
7.0% →
TITLE 5.08 bits
5.3% →
CADRE 4.49 bits
4.4% →
CLINE 5.26 bits
4.2% →
CLINE 4.43 bits
3.2% →
ROUET 4.56 bits
2.8% →
HOISE 4.69 bits
2.3% →
COURE 4.41 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1T1R1A1W4
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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