5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

DRANK

DRANK is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 92.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈdɹæŋk/[ˈd̠͡ɹ̠˔ʷæŋk][ˈd͡ɹ̝ʷæŋk]

Noun

Dextromethorphan.

Noun

A drink, usually alcoholic.

Verb

simple past of drink

“He drank a lot last night.”

Verb

past participle of drink

“He'd drank alcohol prior to driving off the road.”

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

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 DRANK performs as a guess

DRANK 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 80.7% of games, misses completely in 19.3%, and leaves about 174 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,693 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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___K D in the 1st position and K in the 5th position D__N_ D in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _R__K R in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE SOREL SALET TALER STILE SPITE
Words starting with D Words ending with K

First-turn measures

4.73 Entropy (bits)
174 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 67% of evaluated openers
1.21 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DRANK 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#2,693 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DRANK ranks #2,693 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
984
4 guesses
1,126
5 guesses
187
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:
ANR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
32%
All gray
19%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches DRANK in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

95 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

456
247
229
137
132
112
90
83
73
62
46
39
39
38
35
30
27
27
25
18
17
16
15
15
15
14
14
14
13
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DRANK:

19% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
10% chance
Suggested:
SOREL
10% chance
Suggested:
SALET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.3% →
TOILE 6.09 bits
10.5% →
SOREL 5.19 bits
9.7% →
SALET 5.48 bits
5.8% →
TOILE 5.30 bits
5.6% →
TALER 4.72 bits
4.7% →
STILE 5.21 bits
3.8% →
SPITE 4.88 bits
3.5% →
TUILE 5.29 bits
3.1% →
LANCE 4.43 bits
2.6% →
SEITY 4.68 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2R1A1N1K5
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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