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STUNT

Yes, STUNT was the Wordle answer on October 22, 2025 (Wordle #1586).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /stʌnt//stʊnt/

Noun

A daring or dangerous feat, often involving the display of gymnastic skills.

Noun

An act or activity viewed as the outcome of a plan or scheme, often malicious or nefarious.

Verb

To perform a stunt.

Verb

To show off; to posture; to flaunt valuables.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

From dialectal stunt (“stubborn, dwarfed”), from Middle English stont, stunt (“short, brief”), from Old English stunt (“stupid, foolish, simple”), from Proto-Germanic *stuntaz (“short, compact, stupid, dull”). Cognate with Middle High German stunz (“short”), Old Norse stuttr (“short in stature, dwarfed”). Related to Old English styntan (“to make dull, stupefy, become dull, repress”). More at stint.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

One syllable Say it STUHNT.

Rhymes with FRONT BLUNT GRUNT BRUNT SHUNT

In a sentence

I don't think it's just a stunt.
© tatoeba.org contributor CM (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I don't think that it's just a stunt.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use STUNT in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 87.7% of possible answers.

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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: October 22, 2025 (#1586).

See the full page for that puzzle: October 22, 2025 (#1586).

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STUNT in Connections

1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How STUNT performs as a guess

STUNT is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 69.3% of games, misses completely in 30.7%, and leaves about 293 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,774 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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___T S in the 1st position and T in the 5th position S__N_ S in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _T__T T in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position ST_NT S in the 1st position, T in the 2nd position, N in the 4th position, and T in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe STUNT 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.

4.24 Entropy (bits)
293 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
87.7% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How STUNT 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#6,774 Rank among openers
Opening with STUNT 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 3.70 average. It ranks #6,774 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
870
4 guesses
1,181
5 guesses
232
6 guesses
16

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
NSTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
69%
Green tile
34%
All gray
31%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S H U N T
S T U N T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches STUNT in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

STUNT can come back 89 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

733 answers
216 answers
179 answers
154 answers
125 answers
112 answers
87 answers
81 answers
50 answers
44 answers
38 answers
35 answers
33 answers
31 answers
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24 answers
22 answers
22 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1T1U1N1T1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Try next

RAILE ARIEL TIARE PARLE MARLE GRADE

Strategy after playing STUNT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing STUNT:

31% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
9% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
8% chance
Suggested:
TIARE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.7% →
RAILE 6.20 bits
9.1% →
ARIEL 5.40 bits
7.5% →
TIARE 5.54 bits
6.5% →
PARLE 5.41 bits
5.2% →
MARLE 4.81 bits
4.7% →
PARLE 5.17 bits
3.6% →
ARIEL 5.08 bits
3.4% →
GRADE 4.74 bits
2.1% →
CARLE 4.60 bits
1.8% →
PARLE 4.42 bits

Research on STUNT

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

Optimal play

Opening with STUNT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.78 guesses and ranks #9,519 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.91 guesses at best and is rank #4,483 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.70, at or below the proven-optimal 3.78, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
STUNT sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 7 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.0 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).