5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

POCKS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /pɑks/

Noun

plural of pock

Noun

Obsolete form of pox

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 POCKS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts POCKS 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 69.1% of games, misses completely in 30.9%, and leaves about 310 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,357 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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___S P in the 1st position and S in the 5th position P__K_ P in the 1st position and K in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position PO_KS P in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, K in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

Try next

RAILE SLATE TALER TIARE TRADE ALINE
Words starting with P Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.05 Entropy (bits)
310 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 25% of evaluated openers
1.90 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How POCKS 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
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#7,357 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, POCKS ranks #7,357 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
843
4 guesses
1,224
5 guesses
224
6 guesses
14
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:
OS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
69%
Green tile
23%
All gray
31%

Feedback distribution

79 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

729
275
205
165
161
69
66
57
50
42
39
39
34
34
29
28
28
21
18
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8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing POCKS:

31% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
12% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
9% chance
Suggested:
TALER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.9% →
RAILE 6.28 bits
11.7% →
SLATE 5.66 bits
8.7% →
TALER 5.22 bits
7.0% →
TIARE 5.60 bits
6.8% →
TRADE 4.48 bits
2.9% →
RAILE 5.19 bits
2.8% →
ALINE 4.98 bits
2.4% →
LATER 4.71 bits
2.1% →
SNORT 4.51 bits
1.8% →
URITE 3.95 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3O1C3K5S1
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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