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GUNKY

Yes, GUNKY was the Wordle answer on March 6, 2026 (Wordle #1721).

As an opener, it rules out about 81.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɡʌŋki/

Adjective

greasy, messy or dirty.

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: March 6, 2026 (#1721).

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

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How GUNKY performs as a guess

GUNKY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,360 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 60.1% of games, misses completely in 39.9%, and leaves about 435 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,976 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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.

G___Y G in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position G__K_ G in the 1st position and K in the 4th position _U__Y U in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

SATER TALER RAISE STORE CARSE LATER
Words starting with G Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

All four describe GUNKY 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.

3.71 Entropy (bits)
435 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
81.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 12% of evaluated openers
2.23 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GUNKY 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#11,976 Rank among openers
Opening with GUNKY left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.81 average. It ranks #11,976 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
32
3 guesses
719
4 guesses
1,283
5 guesses
295
6 guesses
22
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:
NU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
60%
Green tile
30%
All gray
40%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
F L I N G
G U N K Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GUNKY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

GUNKY can come back 67 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

942 answers
203 answers
194 answers
153 answers
86 answers
79 answers
67 answers
66 answers
50 answers
49 answers
42 answers
38 answers
36 answers
31 answers
28 answers
20 answers
20 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GUNKY:

40% chance
Suggested:
SATER
9% chance
Suggested:
TALER
8% chance
Suggested:
RAISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

39.9% →
SATER 6.18 bits
8.6% →
TALER 4.96 bits
8.2% →
RAISE 5.53 bits
6.5% →
STORE 5.43 bits
3.6% →
CARSE 4.95 bits
3.3% →
LATER 4.74 bits
2.8% →
CADIE 4.74 bits
2.8% →
RAILE 5.11 bits
2.1% →
ROUET 4.09 bits
2.1% →
IRATE 4.78 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2U1N1K5Y4
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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