Scopes
6 lettersnounrareUpdated June 2026
Definition
A reference to John Scopes, the American high school teacher prosecuted in 1925 for teaching evolution in Tennessee in a trial defended by Clarence Darrow.
“The journalist wrote that the Scopes case had permanently changed public attitudes to science in education.”
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SC opening with OPES ending, the OPE vowel pattern is common and makes this a reasonable early Wordle guess
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Worth 10 points with P scoring 3 and a trailing S for potential board hooks onto SCOPE
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