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PRANK

Yes, PRANK was the Wordle answer on June 17, 2025 (Wordle #1459).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /pɹæŋk/[ˈpɹʷæŋk]/pɹaŋk/

Noun

A practical joke or mischievous trick.

“play a prank”

Verb

To perform a practical joke on; to trick and make a fool of someone.

Verb

To call someone's phone and hang up before they answer, so as to send them a notification (of a missed call) without incurring fees.

“Hey man, prank me when you wanna get picked up.”

Noun

An evil deed; a malicious trick, an act of cruel deception.

“She played a cruel prank on him.”

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 17, 2025 (#1459).

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

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How PRANK performs as a guess

PRANK 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 80.4% of games, misses completely in 19.6%, and leaves about 178 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,878 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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__N_ P in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _R__K R in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE ROUET SALET TALER STILE TOISE
Words starting with P Words ending with K

First-turn measures

4.72 Entropy (bits)
178 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 66% of evaluated openers
1.23 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PRANK 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#2,878 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PRANK ranks #2,878 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
975
4 guesses
1,107
5 guesses
204
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:
ANR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
33%
All gray
20%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S W I N G
C A P E D
P R A N K

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PRANK in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

100 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

462
251
238
149
123
103
87
78
77
66
48
42
40
38
27
25
22
22
22
21
19
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13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PRANK:

20% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
11% chance
Suggested:
ROUET
10% chance
Suggested:
SALET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.6% →
TOILE 6.13 bits
10.6% →
ROUET 5.25 bits
10.1% →
SALET 5.46 bits
6.3% →
TOILE 5.21 bits
5.2% →
TALER 4.68 bits
4.4% →
STILE 5.17 bits
3.7% →
TOISE 4.76 bits
3.3% →
STILE 5.29 bits
3.3% →
TOILE 4.49 bits
2.8% →
TOISE 4.67 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3R1A1N1K5
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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