Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier for first-turn info

DROOK

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

To drench, to soak.

Noun

Alternative form of droke.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use DROOK in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 85.1% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How DROOK performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DROOK 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 66.4% of games, misses completely in 33.6%, and leaves about 355 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,438 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe DROOK 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.

3.89 Entropy (bits)
355 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.1% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How DROOK 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#10,438 Rank among openers
Opening with DROOK left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.77 average. It ranks #10,438 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
32
3 guesses
780
4 guesses
1,250
5 guesses
274
6 guesses
16

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
OR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
66%
Green tile
29%
All gray
34%

Feedback distribution

DROOK can come back 69 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

800 answers
337 answers
168 answers
127 answers
126 answers
88 answers
74 answers
64 answers
54 answers
44 answers
42 answers
38 answers
36 answers
31 answers
28 answers
25 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
8 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2R1O1O1K5
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing DROOK

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to DROOK.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DROOK:

34% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
14% chance
Suggested:
SALET
7% chance
Suggested:
TUILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

33.6% →
SLATE 6.36 bits
14.1% →
SALET 5.49 bits
7.0% →
TUILE 4.84 bits
5.3% →
SPATE 4.92 bits
5.3% →
ALINE 5.42 bits
3.7% →
CASTE 4.25 bits
3.1% →
SLANT 5.01 bits
2.7% →
SLANT 4.89 bits
2.3% →
ANILE 4.78 bits
1.8% →
TUILE 4.74 bits

Research on DROOK

Game-tree analysis and word research for DROOK, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with DROOK, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,904 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 DROOK can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.77, at or below the proven-optimal 3.80, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).