5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

CLOAK

Yes, CLOAK was the Wordle answer on January 13, 2025 (Wordle #1304).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kləʊk//kloʊk//kləʉk/

Noun

A long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood.

Noun

A blanket-like covering, often metaphorical.

“Night hid her movements with its cloak of darkness.”

Verb

To cover as with or like a cloak.

Verb

To cover up, hide or conceal.

Alternative forms: cloke

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: January 13, 2025 (#1304).

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

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How CLOAK performs as a guess

CLOAK is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 79.9% of games, misses completely in 20.1%, and leaves about 189 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,114 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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__A_ C in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _L__K L in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position

Try next

STIRE TARSE RONTE LIBEL TRINE SALLE
Words starting with C Words ending with K

First-turn measures

4.71 Entropy (bits)
189 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 66% of evaluated openers
1.24 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CLOAK 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#4,114 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CLOAK ranks #4,114 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
61
3 guesses
912
4 guesses
1,171
5 guesses
193
6 guesses
16
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ALO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
32%
All gray
20%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S A L O N
A L O U D
C L O A K

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CLOAK in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

104 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

474
323
206
136
118
108
72
54
54
53
46
44
42
42
41
41
25
24
21
21
20
18
16
15
14
12
12
11
11
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CLOAK:

20% chance
Suggested:
STIRE
14% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
9% chance
Suggested:
RONTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.1% →
STIRE 6.11 bits
13.7% →
TARSE 5.60 bits
8.7% →
RONTE 5.42 bits
5.8% →
LIBEL 4.96 bits
5.0% →
TRINE 4.81 bits
4.6% →
SALLE 4.81 bits
3.1% →
TRICE 4.92 bits
2.3% →
MANOR 4.40 bits
2.3% →
FRISE 4.66 bits
2.2% →
LODGE 3.92 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3L1O1A1K5
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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