5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

DROCK

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A drainage ditch, sometimes covered; a small watercourse, especially one used for drainage or sewerage.

Noun

A part of certain 18th and 19th century models of plough: a piece of wood which forms the bottom part of the plough, to which the spindle and the shelve-boards are fastened.

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 DROCK performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DROCK 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 73.4% of games, misses completely in 26.6%, and leaves about 243 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,176 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.

D___K D in the 1st position and K in the 5th position D__C_ D in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _R__K R in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position

Try next

SLATE SALET LEANT ALINE SATEM MAILE
Words starting with D Words ending with K

First-turn measures

4.41 Entropy (bits)
243 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 46% of evaluated openers
1.54 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DROCK 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
0.67 Volatility
#4,176 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DROCK ranks #4,176 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
43
3 guesses
926
4 guesses
1,194
5 guesses
177
6 guesses
13
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:
OR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
30%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

85 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

628
280
165
116
107
97
94
92
63
48
44
39
37
35
32
32
29
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27
23
20
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11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DROCK:

27% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
12% chance
Suggested:
SALET
7% chance
Suggested:
LEANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.6% →
SLATE 6.48 bits
11.9% →
SALET 5.49 bits
7.0% →
LEANT 5.06 bits
4.9% →
ALINE 5.42 bits
4.5% →
SATEM 4.53 bits
4.1% →
MAILE 5.23 bits
4.0% →
SLATE 4.96 bits
3.9% →
STAGE 4.81 bits
2.7% →
LIANE 4.55 bits
2.0% →
ANILE 4.83 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2R1O1C3K5
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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