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Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier for first-turn info

FUCKS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /fʌks/

Noun

plural of fuck

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of fuck

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use FUCKS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 81.3% of possible answers.

Open Solver with FUCKS Open Word Finder

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

Try your feedback pattern

Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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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 _U__S U in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position FU_KS F in the 1st position, U in the 2nd position, K in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

First-turn measures

All four describe FUCKS 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.

3.58 Entropy (bits)
445 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
81.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FUCKS 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#11,246 Rank among openers
Opening with FUCKS left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.79 average. It ranks #11,246 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
33
3 guesses
730
4 guesses
1,303
5 guesses
272
6 guesses
15

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
SU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
61%
Green tile
18%
All gray
39%

Feedback distribution

FUCKS can come back 66 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

920 answers
354 answers
205 answers
123 answers
100 answers
75 answers
57 answers
47 answers
43 answers
43 answers
33 answers
32 answers
32 answers
28 answers
26 answers
26 answers
21 answers
18 answers
14 answers
14 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4U1C3K5S1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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

Try next

ARIEL TIARE TRONE MARLE SHART SPANE

Strategy after playing FUCKS

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to FUCKS.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FUCKS:

39% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
15% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
9% chance
Suggested:
TIARE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

38.6% →
ARIEL 6.12 bits
14.8% →
TIARE 5.72 bits
8.6% →
TIARE 5.54 bits
5.2% →
TRONE 5.37 bits
4.2% →
MARLE 4.42 bits
3.1% →
ARIEL 5.24 bits
2.4% →
SHART 4.27 bits
2.0% →
SPANE 4.68 bits
1.8% →
BLAER 4.66 bits
1.8% →
ORATE 4.72 bits