FLASK
Yes, FLASK was the Wordle answer on May 20, 2023 (Wordle #700).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈflɑːsk//flask//ˈflæsk/
- Noun
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A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc.
- Noun
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A container used to discreetly carry a small amount of a hard alcoholic beverage; a pocket flask.
- Verb
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To invest a denture in a flask so as to produce a sectional mold.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English flask, flaske (“case, cask, keg”), from Old English flasce, flaxe (“bottle, flask”) and Medieval Latin flascō (“bottle”); from Frankish *flaskā; both from Proto-Germanic *flaskǭ (“braid-covered bottle, wicker-enclosed jug”), from Proto-Indo-European *ploḱ-skō (“flat”), or from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- (“to weave”). Doublet of fiasco, flacon, and flagon.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it FLASK.
Rhymes with PASCH
In a sentence
Have you brought your flask?
Did you bring your flask?
Use FLASK in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 89.5% 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: May 20, 2023 (#700).
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See what the public sample says →How FLASK performs as a guess
FLASK 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 73.9% of games, misses completely in 26.1%, and leaves about 249 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,129 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe FLASK 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 FLASK 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 FLASK in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
FLASK can come back 92 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 FLASK; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing FLASK
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to FLASK.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing FLASK:
Research on FLASK
Game-tree analysis and word research for FLASK, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with FLASK, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,397 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.85 guesses at best and is rank #2,756 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.70, at or below the proven-optimal 3.74, 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
- FLASK sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 2 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 8, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 92 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.1 of 5).
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).