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CLACK

Yes, CLACK was the Wordle answer on July 12, 2026 (Wordle #1849).

As an opener, it rules out about 84.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /klæk/

Noun

An abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects colliding repetitively; a sound midway between a click and a clunk.

Noun

Anything that causes a clacking noise, such as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.

Verb

To make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.

Verb

To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.

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: July 12, 2026 (#1849).

See the full page for that puzzle: July 12, 2026 (#1849).

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

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How CLACK performs as a guess

CLACK is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 66.1% of games, misses completely in 33.9%, and leaves about 360 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,537 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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.

C___K C in the 1st position and K in the 5th position C__C_ C in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _L__K L in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe CLACK 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.

3.89 Entropy (bits)
360 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
84.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 18% of evaluated openers
2.06 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CLACK 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#11,537 Rank among openers
Opening with CLACK left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.80 average. It ranks #11,537 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
38
3 guesses
745
4 guesses
1,243
5 guesses
300
6 guesses
24
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
AL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
66%
Green tile
31%
All gray
34%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I C K
B E E F Y
C L A C K

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CLACK in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

CLACK can come back 79 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

805 answers
315 answers
207 answers
138 answers
138 answers
78 answers
64 answers
59 answers
48 answers
36 answers
36 answers
32 answers
31 answers
31 answers
31 answers
23 answers
21 answers
17 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
8 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3L1A1C3K5
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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

Try next

TRONE TASER TOILE STIRE TARSE BIOSE

Strategy after playing CLACK

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CLACK:

34% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
13% chance
Suggested:
TASER
9% chance
Suggested:
TOILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

33.9% →
TRONE 6.15 bits
13.3% →
TASER 5.41 bits
8.7% →
TOILE 5.15 bits
5.8% →
STIRE 5.23 bits
5.8% →
TARSE 4.61 bits
3.3% →
BIOSE 4.63 bits
2.7% →
TROPE 5.02 bits
2.5% →
TRIPE 4.70 bits
2.0% →
RIONE 4.79 bits
1.5% →
SPIER 4.41 bits

Research on CLACK

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

Optimal play

Opening with CLACK, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.83 guesses and ranks #12,099 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.96 guesses at best and is rank #5,449 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.80, at or below the proven-optimal 3.83, 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it KLAK.

Rhymes with BLACK TRACK CRACK STACK SNACK

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, CLACK is a kind of noise or valve.

Synonyms CLICK clap chatter

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CLACK sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).