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HUNKY

Yes, HUNKY was the Wordle answer on August 13, 2022 (Wordle #420).

As an opener, it rules out about 84.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈhʌŋ.ki//ˈhɐŋ.ki//ˈhʊŋ.ki/

Adjective

Exhibiting strong, masculine beauty.

Adjective

Shaped like a hunk, or piece; chunky.

Noun

A Hungarian or other eastern European, e.g. a Romanian or a Slav. (Sometimes applied (like honky) to any white person.)

Alternative forms: hunkie, hunkey

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: August 13, 2022 (#420).

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

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How HUNKY performs as a guess

HUNKY 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 64.5% of games, misses completely in 35.5%, and leaves about 375 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,718 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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.

H___Y H in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position H__K_ H 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

ARIEL TALER CRATE STURE STIRE CARSE
Words starting with H Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.79 Entropy (bits)
375 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
84.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 14% of evaluated openers
2.16 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How HUNKY 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#11,718 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, HUNKY ranks #11,718 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
720
4 guesses
1,277
5 guesses
291
6 guesses
24
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)
64%
Green tile
28%
All gray
36%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches HUNKY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

75 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

837
229
206
191
147
89
72
71
56
38
36
30
27
26
24
21
21
18
16
15
14
11
9
9
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8
8
7
7
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HUNKY:

35% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
10% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
9% chance
Suggested:
TALER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

35.5% →
ARIEL 6.16 bits
9.7% →
ARIEL 5.59 bits
8.7% →
TALER 4.95 bits
8.1% →
CRATE 5.75 bits
6.2% →
STURE 5.40 bits
3.8% →
STIRE 4.89 bits
3.1% →
CARSE 4.93 bits
3.0% →
CADIE 4.63 bits
2.4% →
ROUET 4.15 bits
1.6% →
MARLE 2.96 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4U1N1K5Y4
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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