5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier for first-turn info

PUCKS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 82.9% of possible answers.

Open Solver with PUCKS Open Word Finder

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /pʌks/

Noun

plural of puck

Noun

Plenty; an abundance (of something).

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 PUCKS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PUCKS 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 62.6% of games, misses completely in 37.4%, and leaves about 405 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,433 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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.
See strategy patterns

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 _U__S U in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe PUCKS 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.

3.81 Entropy (bits)
405 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
82.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 15% of evaluated openers
2.14 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PUCKS 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#8,433 Rank among openers
Opening with PUCKS 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 3.73 average. It ranks #8,433 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
822
4 guesses
1,236
5 guesses
236
6 guesses
16
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:
SU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
63%
Green tile
18%
All gray
37%

Feedback distribution

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

888 answers
293 answers
190 answers
125 answers
91 answers
74 answers
72 answers
60 answers
47 answers
44 answers
37 answers
36 answers
32 answers
29 answers
26 answers
24 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
15 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3U1C3K5S1
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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

Try next

ARIEL TIARE TRONE LATER RAINE THANE

Strategy after playing PUCKS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PUCKS:

37% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
12% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
8% chance
Suggested:
TIARE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

37.4% →
ARIEL 6.13 bits
12.3% →
TIARE 5.75 bits
8.0% →
TIARE 5.50 bits
5.3% →
TRONE 5.36 bits
3.8% →
LATER 4.61 bits
3.1% →
ARIEL 5.20 bits
3.0% →
RAINE 5.18 bits
2.5% →
TIARE 4.68 bits
2.0% →
THANE 4.31 bits
1.9% →
BLAER 4.73 bits

Research on PUCKS

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

Optimal play

Opening with PUCKS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #9,285 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 #3,506 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.73, at or below the proven-optimal 3.77, 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 PUHKS. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, PUCKS is a kind of fairy or disc.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PUCKS 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.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.3 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).