DRAKE
Yes, DRAKE was the Wordle answer on June 20, 2026 (Wordle #1827).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /dɹeɪk/
- Noun
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A male duck (animal).
- Noun
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dragon
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English drake (“dragon; Satan”), from Old English draca (“dragon, sea monster, huge serpent”), from Proto-West Germanic *drakō (“dragon”), from Latin dracō (“dragon”), from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “serpent, giant seafish”), from δέρκομαι (dérkomai, “to see clearly”). Compare Middle Dutch drake and German Drache. Doublet of dragon.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it DRAYK.
Rhymes with BREAK SHAKE SNAKE STAKE AWAKE
In a sentence
Perry decided to gain information from Drake.
Nick Drake was an English musician.
Use DRAKE in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 94.7% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: June 20, 2026 (#1827).
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1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #1026
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DRAKE appeared in MALE ANIMALS (blue group).
How DRAKE performs as a guess
DRAKE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 84.8% of games, misses completely in 15.2%, and leaves about 127 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,669 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe DRAKE 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How DRAKE 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches DRAKE in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
DRAKE can come back 107 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for DRAKE; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing DRAKE
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to DRAKE.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing DRAKE:
Research on DRAKE
Game-tree analysis and word research for DRAKE, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with DRAKE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #1,995 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with DRAKE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.66, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- DRAKE sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 9 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (2.9 of 5).
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).