5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

PALAK

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Spinach or similar greens (including Amaranthus species and Chenopodium album).

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 PALAK performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PALAK 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 65.7% of games, misses completely in 34.3%, and leaves about 352 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,602 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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.

P___K P in the 1st position and K in the 5th position P__A_ P in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _A__K A in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position

Try next

TRONE CRATE TOILE RONTE SUITE SLATE
Words starting with P Words ending with K

First-turn measures

3.94 Entropy (bits)
352 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 20% of evaluated openers
2.01 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PALAK 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#10,602 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PALAK ranks #10,602 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
748
4 guesses
1,258
5 guesses
283
6 guesses
16
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
2 vowels
Common:
AL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
66%
Green tile
31%
All gray
34%

Feedback distribution

82 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

809
233
227
174
99
92
70
57
52
47
44
38
32
30
26
19
19
19
18
16
14
12
11
10
10
9
9
9
9
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PALAK:

34% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
10% chance
Suggested:
CRATE
10% chance
Suggested:
TOILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

34.3% →
TRONE 6.12 bits
9.9% →
CRATE 5.52 bits
9.6% →
TOILE 5.10 bits
7.4% →
RONTE 4.93 bits
4.2% →
SUITE 5.31 bits
3.9% →
SLATE 4.56 bits
3.0% →
IRONE 5.10 bits
2.4% →
TOILE 4.28 bits
2.2% →
TRODE 4.49 bits
2.0% →
CRUET 4.02 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3A1L1A1K5
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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