5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

CLECK

CLECK is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.

As an opener, it rules out about 86.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

To hatch (a bird); (colloquial) to give birth to (a person).

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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

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

How CLECK performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CLECK as a guess, but the solver does not list it as a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 72.6% of games, misses completely in 27.4%, and leaves about 331 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,942 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.84 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.

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

Try next

ROAST STAIR LOYAL REATE SHART SONAR
Words starting with C Words ending with K

First-turn measures

3.83 Entropy (bits)
331 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 16% of evaluated openers
2.12 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CLECK 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.

3.84 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#12,942 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CLECK ranks #12,942 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
687
4 guesses
1,263
5 guesses
330
6 guesses
31
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
EL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
28%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

68 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

646
513
199
159
91
80
61
55
44
42
41
39
34
32
26
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25
20
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CLECK:

27% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
22% chance
Suggested:
STAIR
8% chance
Suggested:
LOYAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.4% →
ROAST 6.06 bits
21.8% →
STAIR 5.41 bits
8.4% →
LOYAL 4.97 bits
6.7% →
REATE 4.72 bits
3.9% →
SHART 5.12 bits
3.4% →
SONAR 4.39 bits
2.6% →
SAURY 4.53 bits
2.3% →
SONAR 4.93 bits
1.9% →
DRAPE 3.79 bits
1.8% →
ORATE 4.56 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3L1E1C3K5
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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