A group of people organized for some common purpose, usually of about ten members.
A unit of tactical military personnel, or of police officers, usually of about ten members.
A group of potential players from whom a starting team and substitutes are chosen.
To transport by ambulance.
“He assembled a squad of ten to take on the assassin.”
SQUAD is a 5-letter word with 2 vowels (U, A) and 3 consonants (S, Q, D). Every letter is distinct, so it rarely punishes a clean opening guess.
It leans on high-frequency letters (S, A), so a strong vowel-and-common-consonant opener tends to light up quickly. Watch for the less-common letter Q — saving a guess to test it once the vowels are placed is usually the fastest route.
Across the 1,734 curated answers in the Wordocious bank, A appears in 40% of answers (the 2nd most common letter), S appears in 28% of answers (the 7th most common letter), D appears in 19% of answers (the 11th most common letter). 2 other answers share the opening “SQ-”, so two purple tiles up front still leave real guessing to do.
Difficulty: 3/5 — moderate, because it uses at least one genuinely rare letter.
One letter away in the answer bank: SQUAT, SQUID. Each of these turns four tiles purple against SQUAD — the classic endgame squeeze where spending a guess on the differing letter beats burning attempts on hope.
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Definitions adapted from Wiktionary via the Free Dictionary API (CC BY-SA). Letter statistics, difficulty ratings, and near-miss analysis are original Wordocious research computed from our curated answer list.
