5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

PLUCK

Yes, PLUCK was the Wordle answer on December 21, 2021 (Wordle #185).

As an opener, it rules out about 84.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /plʌk//plʊk/

Verb

To pull something sharply; to pull something out

“She plucked the phone from her bag and dialled.”

Verb

To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.

Noun

An instance of plucking or pulling sharply.

“Those tiny birds are hardly worth the tedious pluck.”

Noun

The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: December 21, 2021 (#185).

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

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How PLUCK performs as a guess

PLUCK is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 65.1% of games, misses completely in 34.9%, and leaves about 355 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,835 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.

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__C_ P in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _L__K L in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position

Try next

TIARE RAILE SNORE CANER TARSE AROSE
Words starting with P Words ending with K

First-turn measures

4.03 Entropy (bits)
355 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
84.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 24% of evaluated openers
1.92 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PLUCK 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
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#6,835 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PLUCK ranks #6,835 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
56
3 guesses
858
4 guesses
1,183
5 guesses
242
6 guesses
12
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:
LU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
65%
Green tile
26%
All gray
35%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
F L U N G
C L U C K
P L U C K

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PLUCK in 5 guesses. See the trap-family guide for similar endgames.

Feedback distribution

90 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

822
273
156
145
96
94
70
65
58
45
39
36
29
28
25
25
20
17
15
15
15
15
13
12
12
11
11
11
10
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PLUCK:

35% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
12% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
7% chance
Suggested:
SNORE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

34.9% →
TIARE 6.32 bits
11.6% →
RAILE 5.34 bits
6.6% →
SNORE 5.13 bits
6.1% →
CANER 5.49 bits
4.1% →
TARSE 5.56 bits
4.0% →
AROSE 4.95 bits
3.0% →
SHART 4.76 bits
2.8% →
NOISE 5.06 bits
2.5% →
TIARE 4.91 bits
1.9% →
SNARE 4.79 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3L1U1C3K5
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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