5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

PATKA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A head covering worn by Sikh boys, and by Sikh men either alone or as an under-turban.

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 PATKA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PATKA 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 68.4% of games, misses completely in 31.6%, and leaves about 334 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,992 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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___A P in the 1st position and A in the 5th position P__K_ P in the 1st position and K in the 4th position _A__A A in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

RIONE SHIER LEARN SIREN LEAST SLIER
Words starting with P Words ending with A

First-turn measures

3.85 Entropy (bits)
334 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 17% of evaluated openers
2.10 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PATKA 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#9,992 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PATKA ranks #9,992 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
48
3 guesses
755
4 guesses
1,277
5 guesses
256
6 guesses
17
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:
AT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
25%
All gray
32%

Feedback distribution

74 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

745
293
280
157
114
94
70
65
55
47
36
35
32
27
26
25
18
17
14
13
13
13
12
12
11
10
9
9
8
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PATKA:

32% chance
Suggested:
RIONE
12% chance
Suggested:
SHIER
12% chance
Suggested:
LEARN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.6% →
RIONE 6.00 bits
12.4% →
SHIER 5.66 bits
11.9% →
LEARN 5.37 bits
6.7% →
SIREN 4.75 bits
4.8% →
LEAST 4.93 bits
4.0% →
SLIER 5.49 bits
3.0% →
NOISE 4.77 bits
2.8% →
CRINE 4.94 bits
2.3% →
COURE 4.62 bits
2.0% →
TRINE 3.85 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3A1T1K5A1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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