5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

DACKS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of daks.

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of dack

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 DACKS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DACKS 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 75.5% of games, misses completely in 24.5%, and leaves about 239 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,638 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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.

D___S D in the 1st position and S in the 5th position D__K_ D in the 1st position and K in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE ROUET ALERT TONER RIONE STALE
Words starting with D Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.22 Entropy (bits)
239 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 34% of evaluated openers
1.73 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DACKS 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.66 Volatility
#7,638 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DACKS ranks #7,638 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
827
4 guesses
1,275
5 guesses
204
6 guesses
11
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
1 vowels
Common:
AS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
22%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

70 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

577
270
252
153
147
125
105
66
60
57
51
39
32
29
24
23
21
20
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19
16
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11
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DACKS:

24% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
11% chance
Suggested:
ROUET
11% chance
Suggested:
ALERT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.5% →
TOILE 6.08 bits
11.5% →
ROUET 5.55 bits
10.7% →
ALERT 5.60 bits
6.5% →
TONER 4.78 bits
6.2% →
RIONE 5.26 bits
5.3% →
RIONE 5.37 bits
4.5% →
STALE 4.97 bits
2.8% →
GOIER 4.88 bits
2.5% →
BLORE 4.78 bits
2.4% →
TRICE 4.71 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2A1C3K5S1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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