5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

KONKS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 83.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of konk

Noun

plural of konk

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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

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 KONKS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts KONKS as a guess, but the solver does not list it as a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 65.0% of games, misses completely in 35.0%, and leaves about 386 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,520 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.87 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.

K___S K in the 1st position and S in the 5th position K__K_ K in the 1st position and K in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

RAILE STARE TALER ARIEL CADIE GLARE
Words starting with K Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.56 Entropy (bits)
386 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 8% of evaluated openers
2.39 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How KONKS 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.

3.87 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#13,520 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, KONKS ranks #13,520 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
26
3 guesses
637
4 guesses
1,332
5 guesses
334
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
NOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
65%
Green tile
22%
All gray
35%

Feedback distribution

52 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

825
321
195
179
169
84
68
59
58
44
41
35
31
25
23
22
21
18
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12
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing KONKS:

35% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
14% chance
Suggested:
STARE
8% chance
Suggested:
TALER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

35.0% →
RAILE 6.25 bits
13.6% →
STARE 5.72 bits
8.3% →
TALER 5.26 bits
7.6% →
ARIEL 5.53 bits
7.2% →
TALER 4.58 bits
3.6% →
CADIE 4.78 bits
2.9% →
GLARE 4.52 bits
2.5% →
SPORT 4.33 bits
2.5% →
SIENT 4.52 bits
1.9% →
URITE 3.87 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

K5O1N1K5S1
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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