Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

PROWK

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

No dictionary definition for PROWK is recorded in our sourced data.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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Use PROWK in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 86.8% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How PROWK performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PROWK 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 69.2% of games, misses completely in 30.8%, and leaves about 315 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,877 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe PROWK 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.

4.02 Entropy (bits)
315 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PROWK 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#7,877 Rank among openers
Opening with PROWK left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.72 average. It ranks #7,877 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
43
3 guesses
835
4 guesses
1,229
5 guesses
231
6 guesses
14

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
OR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
69%
Green tile
27%
All gray
31%

Feedback distribution

PROWK can come back 75 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

734 answers
304 answers
225 answers
123 answers
119 answers
94 answers
93 answers
68 answers
65 answers
54 answers
45 answers
37 answers
32 answers
28 answers
28 answers
21 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
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16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
13 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3R1O1W4K5
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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

Strategy after playing PROWK

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PROWK:

31% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
13% chance
Suggested:
SALET
9% chance
Suggested:
LEANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.8% →
SLATE 6.26 bits
12.8% →
SALET 5.38 bits
9.4% →
LEANT 5.02 bits
5.2% →
CADET 4.96 bits
5.0% →
TARRE 4.65 bits
3.9% →
SLATE 5.45 bits
3.9% →
SLATE 4.92 bits
2.9% →
SLATE 4.93 bits
2.7% →
THALE 5.10 bits
2.3% →
SLANE 4.75 bits

Research on PROWK

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

Optimal play

Opening with PROWK, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.76 guesses and ranks #8,642 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.87 guesses at best and is rank #3,586 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.72, at or below the proven-optimal 3.76, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).