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PLUNK

Yes, PLUNK was the Wordle answer on June 13, 2023 (Wordle #724).

As an opener, it rules out about 87.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /plʌŋk/

Noun

A brief, dull sound, such as the sound of a string of a stringed instrument being plucked, or the thud of something landing on a surface.

Noun

A (heavy) blow or hit.

Adverb

With a brief, dull sound, such as the thud of something landing on a surface.

Adverb

Directly, exactly, precisely.

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: June 13, 2023 (#724).

See the full page for that puzzle: June 13, 2023 (#724).

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

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How PLUNK performs as a guess

PLUNK is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 69.3% of games, misses completely in 30.7%, and leaves about 305 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,266 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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__N_ P in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _L__K L in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in PLUNK.

First-turn measures

All four describe PLUNK 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.

4.14 Entropy (bits)
305 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
87.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 29% of evaluated openers
1.81 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PLUNK 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#7,266 Rank among openers
Opening with PLUNK left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.71 average. It ranks #7,266 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
881
4 guesses
1,161
5 guesses
249
6 guesses
17
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
LNU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
69%
Green tile
26%
All gray
31%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PLUNK in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

PLUNK can come back 82 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

730 answers
277 answers
222 answers
141 answers
106 answers
88 answers
79 answers
61 answers
58 answers
45 answers
42 answers
40 answers
39 answers
37 answers
30 answers
25 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3L1U1N1K5
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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

Try next

ORATE RAILE SOARE SATER TARSE AROSE

Strategy after playing PLUNK

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PLUNK:

31% chance
Suggested:
ORATE
12% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
9% chance
Suggested:
SOARE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.7% →
ORATE 6.22 bits
11.7% →
RAILE 5.34 bits
9.4% →
SOARE 5.34 bits
5.9% →
SATER 5.23 bits
4.5% →
TARSE 5.72 bits
3.7% →
AROSE 4.93 bits
3.3% →
ORATE 4.84 bits
2.6% →
SCOTE 4.89 bits
2.4% →
HOISE 4.93 bits
1.9% →
CHARE 4.50 bits

Research on PLUNK

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

Optimal play

Opening with PLUNK, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #7,169 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 #2,425 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it PLUHNGK.

Rhymes with DRUNK TRUNK CHUNK SKUNK SPUNK

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, PLUNK is a kind of sound or hit.

Synonyms pick dive plunge PLANK PLUMP PLUCK

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PLUNK 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).