DRUNK
Yes, DRUNK was the Wordle answer on April 24, 2026 (Wordle #1770).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /dɹʌŋk/
- Adjective
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Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.
- Adjective
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Habitually or frequently in a state of intoxication.
- Adverb
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While drunk.
“He was arrested for driving drunk.”
- Noun
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One who is intoxicated with alcohol.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English drunke, drunken, ydrunke, ydrunken, from Old English druncen, ġedruncen (“drunk”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkanaz, *gadrunkanaz (“drunk; drunken”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *drinkaną (“to drink”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian dronken, West Frisian dronken, Dutch dronken, gedronken, German Low German drunken, bedrunken, German trunken,
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it DRUHNGK.
Rhymes with TRUNK CHUNK SKUNK SPUNK STUNK
Related meanings
Synonyms gone ripped intoxicated high excited TIGHT
In a sentence
He is good and drunk.
One of them is drunk.
Use DRUNK in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 89.2% 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: April 24, 2026 (#1770).
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See what the public sample says →How DRUNK performs as a guess
DRUNK 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 73.7% of games, misses completely in 26.3%, and leaves about 257 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,082 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 DRUNK 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 DRUNK 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 DRUNK in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
DRUNK can come back 84 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 DRUNK; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing DRUNK
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to DRUNK.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing DRUNK:
Research on DRUNK
Game-tree analysis and word research for DRUNK, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with DRUNK, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,816 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 DRUNK can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.71, 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
- DRUNK sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 41 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- Learner level
- Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 10, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 81 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with internal bodily sensation (4.0 of 5).
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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).