PARKA
Yes, PARKA was the Wordle answer on May 10, 2026 (Wordle #1786).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈpɑɹkə//ˈpɑːkə/
- Noun
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A long jacket with a hood which protects the wearer against rain and wind.
Alternative forms: parkee, parki
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
1780, ultimately from Tundra Nenets парка (parka), via Aleut parka and Russian па́рка (párka). Perhaps from Proto-Uralic; see dialectal Finnish parka (“rag, swaddling clothes”), which may be a cognate from Proto-Uralic, or an early borrowing from another Uralic language.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it PAHRKUH.
Rhymes with BARCA
In a sentence
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Use PARKA in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 87.4% of possible answers.
Wordle status
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Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: May 10, 2026 (#1786).
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See what the public sample says →How PARKA performs as a guess
PARKA is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 71.2% of games, misses completely in 28.8%, and leaves about 300 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,682 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe PARKA 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How PARKA 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches PARKA in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
PARKA can come back 80 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for PARKA; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing PARKA
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to PARKA.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing PARKA:
Research on PARKA
Game-tree analysis and word research for PARKA, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with PARKA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.81 guesses and ranks #11,030 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.93 guesses at best and is rank #4,944 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.78, at or below the proven-optimal 3.81, because the two figures score different answer lists.
These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- PARKA sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.4 of 5).
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).