5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

LURKS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of lurk

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 LURKS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LURKS 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 81.3% of games, misses completely in 18.7%, and leaves about 206 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,234 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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.

L___S L in the 1st position and S in the 5th position L__K_ L in the 1st position and K in the 4th position _U__S U in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

CONTE DAINE ALIEN STANE STALE COATE
Words starting with L Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.41 Entropy (bits)
206 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 46% of evaluated openers
1.54 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How LURKS 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#7,234 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, LURKS ranks #7,234 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
48
3 guesses
865
4 guesses
1,189
5 guesses
231
6 guesses
20
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:
LRSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
20%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

85 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

440
363
258
210
86
83
82
75
68
63
49
46
41
39
30
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25
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9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LURKS:

19% chance
Suggested:
CONTE
15% chance
Suggested:
DAINE
11% chance
Suggested:
ALIEN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.7% →
CONTE 5.93 bits
15.4% →
DAINE 5.51 bits
10.9% →
ALIEN 5.25 bits
8.9% →
STANE 5.54 bits
3.6% →
STALE 4.87 bits
3.5% →
COATE 4.89 bits
3.5% →
STOAE 4.87 bits
3.2% →
CONTE 4.86 bits
2.9% →
MATEY 3.80 bits
2.7% →
ARIEL 4.43 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1U1R1K5S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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