5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

FENKS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

The refuse whale blubber, used as a manure, and in the manufacture of Prussian blue.

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 FENKS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts FENKS 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 77.9% of games, misses completely in 22.1%, and leaves about 241 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,682 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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.

F___S F in the 1st position and S in the 5th position F__K_ F in the 1st position and K in the 4th position _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIL ORATE SLART TRAIN REATE ARIEL
Words starting with F Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.19 Entropy (bits)
241 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 32% of evaluated openers
1.76 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How FENKS 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#9,682 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, FENKS ranks #9,682 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
771
4 guesses
1,282
5 guesses
252
6 guesses
10
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:
ENS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
23%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

73 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

521
398
214
159
150
134
88
66
49
46
39
28
28
28
28
28
28
26
25
20
17
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10
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FENKS:

22% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
17% chance
Suggested:
ORATE
9% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.1% →
TRAIL 5.86 bits
16.9% →
ORATE 5.24 bits
9.1% →
SLART 5.38 bits
6.7% →
SLART 4.95 bits
6.4% →
TRAIN 5.39 bits
5.7% →
REATE 4.65 bits
3.7% →
ARIEL 4.59 bits
2.8% →
COALY 4.31 bits
2.1% →
STAIN 4.30 bits
2.0% →
LAIRY 4.67 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4E1N1K5S1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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