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POKER

Yes, POKER was the Wordle answer on August 15, 2022 (Wordle #422).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈpoʊkɚ//ˈpəʊkə//ˈpəʉkə/

Noun

A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick.

Noun

One who pokes.

Verb

To poke with a utensil such as a poker or needle.

Verb

To play poker.

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

Etymology

American English, perhaps from first element of German Pochspiel, from German pochen, perhaps from French poque. First appeared in the 19th century.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it POHKUR.

Rhymes with JOKER OCHRE KOKER

In a sentence

Are you good at poker?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I like to play poker.
© tatoeba.org contributor weihaiping (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use POKER in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.2% of possible answers.

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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: August 15, 2022 (#422).

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POKER in Connections

8 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . Showing the 5 most recent. A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How POKER performs as a guess

POKER is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 83.5% of games, misses completely in 16.5%, and leaves about 163 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,802 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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___R P in the 1st position and R in the 5th position P__E_ P in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__R O in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position PO_ER P in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe POKER 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.

4.75 Entropy (bits)
163 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.2% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How POKER 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#4,802 Rank among openers
Opening with POKER 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 3.67 average. It ranks #4,802 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
920
4 guesses
1,148
5 guesses
217
6 guesses
14

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
31%
All gray
16%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S M O C K
J O K E R
P O K E R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches POKER in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

POKER can come back 91 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

394 answers
328 answers
168 answers
147 answers
128 answers
120 answers
91 answers
78 answers
73 answers
73 answers
55 answers
55 answers
41 answers
39 answers
34 answers
31 answers
28 answers
27 answers
26 answers
25 answers
25 answers
25 answers
23 answers
22 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3O1K5E1R1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

SAINT SLATE TRAIL TIARE SALTY SLANT

Strategy after playing POKER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing POKER:

17% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
14% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
7% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.5% →
SAINT 6.13 bits
13.8% →
SLATE 5.62 bits
7.0% →
TRAIL 5.15 bits
6.2% →
TIARE 4.80 bits
5.4% →
SALTY 4.39 bits
5.0% →
SLANT 5.30 bits
3.8% →
SAINT 3.88 bits
3.3% →
SLANT 4.79 bits
3.1% →
SLACK 5.00 bits
3.1% →
SAINT 4.39 bits

Research on POKER

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

Optimal play

Opening with POKER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,420 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with POKER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, 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
POKER sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 9 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 10, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 87 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.9 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).