5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

FLOCK

Yes, FLOCK was the Wordle answer on July 18, 2022 (Wordle #394).

As an opener, it rules out about 86.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /flɒk//flɑk/

Noun

A number of birds together in a group, such as those gathered together for the purpose of migration.

Noun

A large number of animals associated together in a group; commonly used of sheep, but (dated) also used for goats, farmed animals, and a wide variety of animals.

Verb

To congregate in or head towards a place in large numbers.

“People flocked to the cinema to see the new film.”

Verb

To coat a surface with dense fibers or particles; especially, to create a dense arrangement of fibers with a desired nap.

“the sampling and elution advantages of flocked swabs versus spun swabs”

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: July 18, 2022 (#394).

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

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How FLOCK performs as a guess

FLOCK is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 67.9% of games, misses completely in 32.1%, and leaves about 326 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,701 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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___K F in the 1st position and K in the 5th position F__C_ F in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _L__K L in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position

Try next

TARSE RAILE RONTE IRATE PRATE PRASE
Words starting with F Words ending with K

First-turn measures

4.01 Entropy (bits)
326 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
86.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 23% of evaluated openers
1.94 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How FLOCK 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#8,701 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, FLOCK ranks #8,701 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
814
4 guesses
1,234
5 guesses
241
6 guesses
19
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:
LO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
28%
All gray
32%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I N K
B E E F Y
F L O C K

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches FLOCK in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

80 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

757
263
251
132
127
84
69
69
49
44
43
43
32
27
26
19
19
18
18
17
16
14
14
14
13
11
8
8
8
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FLOCK:

32% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
11% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
11% chance
Suggested:
RONTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.1% →
TARSE 6.42 bits
11.2% →
RAILE 5.37 bits
10.6% →
RONTE 5.41 bits
5.6% →
IRATE 5.57 bits
5.4% →
PRATE 4.91 bits
3.6% →
PRASE 4.96 bits
2.9% →
TIARE 4.80 bits
2.9% →
TALER 4.11 bits
2.1% →
CANER 4.78 bits
1.9% →
SNARE 4.68 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4L1O1C3K5
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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