Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

PARKI

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of parka (hooded jacket)

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use PARKI in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 92.6% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How PARKI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PARKI 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 83.2% of games, misses completely in 16.8%, and leaves about 176 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,740 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe PARKI 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.

4.56 Entropy (bits)
176 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PARKI 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#6,740 Rank among openers
Opening with PARKI left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.70 average. It ranks #6,740 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
869
4 guesses
1,182
5 guesses
238
6 guesses
12

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
26%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

PARKI can come back 85 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

400 answers
281 answers
226 answers
221 answers
153 answers
145 answers
100 answers
83 answers
59 answers
56 answers
40 answers
34 answers
33 answers
33 answers
31 answers
30 answers
27 answers
27 answers
26 answers
24 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3A1R1K5I1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Strategy after playing PARKI

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to PARKI.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PARKI:

17% chance
Suggested:
STOLE
12% chance
Suggested:
SIENT
9% chance
Suggested:
SLATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.8% →
STOLE 5.91 bits
11.8% →
SIENT 5.27 bits
9.5% →
SLATE 5.77 bits
9.3% →
TOUSE 5.24 bits
6.4% →
CLOTE 4.64 bits
6.1% →
TRADE 4.66 bits
4.2% →
TRIED 4.60 bits
3.5% →
TOUSE 4.86 bits
2.5% →
SLEPT 4.83 bits
2.3% →
ANVIL 4.64 bits

Research on PARKI

Game-tree analysis and word research for PARKI, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with PARKI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,520 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.84 guesses at best and is rank #2,445 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.70, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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
PARKI sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).