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DRUNK

Yes, DRUNK was the Wordle answer on April 24, 2026 (Wordle #1770).

As an opener, it rules out about 89.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /dɹʌŋk/

Adjective

Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.

Adjective

Habitually or frequently in a state of intoxication.

Adverb

While drunk.

“He was arrested for driving drunk.”

Noun

One who is intoxicated with alcohol.

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: April 24, 2026 (#1770).

See the full page for that puzzle: April 24, 2026 (#1770).

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

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How DRUNK performs as a guess

DRUNK 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 73.7% of games, misses completely in 26.3%, and leaves about 255 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

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

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

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.

4.31 Entropy (bits)
255 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
89.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 39% of evaluated openers
1.64 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

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.

3.65 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.67 Spread of game lengths
#4,082 Rank among openers
Opening with DRUNK solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.67 means those games clustered within about 0.67 of a guess of the 3.65 average. It ranks #4,082 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
922
4 guesses
1,193
5 guesses
180
6 guesses
12
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
1 vowels
Common:
NRU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
28%
All gray
26%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I C K
D R U N K

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:

624 answers
334 answers
184 answers
120 answers
113 answers
108 answers
77 answers
69 answers
65 answers
59 answers
42 answers
41 answers
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38 answers
23 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
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18 answers
15 answers
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14 answers
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13 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2R1U1N1K5
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

SLATE SALET CANOE COATE STOLE LAIDE

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:

26% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
14% chance
Suggested:
SALET
8% chance
Suggested:
CANOE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.3% →
SLATE 6.45 bits
14.1% →
SALET 5.55 bits
7.8% →
CANOE 5.28 bits
5.1% →
COATE 5.06 bits
4.8% →
STOLE 4.82 bits
4.5% →
LAIDE 5.30 bits
3.2% →
TOISE 4.83 bits
2.9% →
SURER 4.77 bits
2.7% →
SPATE 4.80 bits
2.5% →
AINEE 4.57 bits

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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it DRUHNGK.

Rhymes with TRUNK CHUNK SKUNK SPUNK STUNK

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, DRUNK is a kind of drinker or consumer.

Synonyms gone ripped intoxicated high excited TIGHT

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).

In a sentence

He is good and drunk.
© tatoeba.org contributor shanghainese (CC BY 2.0 FR)
One of them is drunk.
© tatoeba.org contributor Amastan (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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).