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DRAKE

Yes, DRAKE was the Wordle answer on June 20, 2026 (Wordle #1827).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /dɹeɪk/

Noun

A male duck (animal).

Noun

dragon

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: June 20, 2026 (#1827).

See the full page for that puzzle: June 20, 2026 (#1827).

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

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How DRAKE performs as a guess

DRAKE 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 84.8% of games, misses completely in 15.2%, and leaves about 126 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

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

D___E D in the 1st position and E in the 5th position D__K_ D in the 1st position and K in the 4th position _R__E R in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

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.

5.12 Entropy (bits)
126 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 89% of evaluated openers
0.82 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

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.

3.65 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#3,669 Rank among openers
Opening with DRAKE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.65 average. It ranks #3,669 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
69
3 guesses
919
4 guesses
1,143
5 guesses
210
6 guesses
11
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
39%
All gray
15%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C R I S P
B A D G E
D R A K E

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:

361 answers
213 answers
165 answers
142 answers
136 answers
109 answers
83 answers
72 answers
64 answers
60 answers
57 answers
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46 answers
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26 answers
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20 answers
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19 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2R1A1K5E1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

HOIST TALON ISLET SEITY SOILY TORUS

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:

15% chance
Suggested:
HOIST
9% chance
Suggested:
TALON
7% chance
Suggested:
ISLET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.2% →
HOIST 5.87 bits
9.0% →
TALON 5.25 bits
7.0% →
ISLET 4.95 bits
6.0% →
SEITY 4.02 bits
5.7% →
SOILY 4.77 bits
4.6% →
TORUS 5.19 bits
3.5% →
CAROL 4.68 bits
3.0% →
SLANT 4.64 bits
2.7% →
PRINT 4.12 bits
2.5% →
CLEAN 4.40 bits

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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it DRAYK.

Rhymes with BREAK SHAKE SNAKE STAKE AWAKE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, DRAKE is a kind of duck.

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).

In a sentence

Perry decided to gain information from Drake.
© tatoeba.org contributor AlanF_US (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Nick Drake was an English musician.
© tatoeba.org contributor sundown (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).