5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

FRISK

FRISK is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 90.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /fɹɪsk/

Noun

A little playful skip or leap; a brisk and lively movement.

Noun

The act of frisking, of searching for something by feeling someone's body.

“The customs officer gave me a frisk after I went through the metal detector.”

Verb

To frolic, gambol, skip, dance, leap.

Verb

To search (someone) by feeling their body and clothing.

“The police frisked the suspiciously-acting individual and found a knife as well as a bag of marijuana.”

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

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 FRISK performs as a guess

FRISK 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 75.7% of games, misses completely in 24.3%, and leaves about 235 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,767 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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__S_ F in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _R__K R in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position

Try next

ALONE TERRA TILDE STALE ATONE OLATE
Words starting with F Words ending with K

First-turn measures

4.33 Entropy (bits)
235 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 40% of evaluated openers
1.62 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How FRISK 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#6,767 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, FRISK ranks #6,767 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
862
4 guesses
1,201
5 guesses
223
6 guesses
16
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:
IRS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
32%
All gray
24%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches FRISK in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

85 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

572
303
197
194
126
94
86
85
69
43
39
37
36
35
27
27
25
24
23
18
18
17
17
15
15
13
12
11
9
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FRISK:

24% chance
Suggested:
ALONE
13% chance
Suggested:
TERRA
8% chance
Suggested:
TILDE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.3% →
ALONE 5.99 bits
12.8% →
TERRA 5.38 bits
8.4% →
TILDE 5.12 bits
8.2% →
STALE 5.56 bits
5.3% →
ATONE 4.86 bits
4.0% →
OLATE 4.88 bits
3.6% →
HAOLE 5.04 bits
3.6% →
POTAE 4.82 bits
2.9% →
CADET 4.59 bits
1.8% →
STAIN 4.41 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4R1I1S1K5
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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