QUACK
Yes, QUACK was the Wordle answer on April 28, 2026 (Wordle #1774).
As an opener, it rules out about 83.4% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /kwæk/
- Noun
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The vocalisation made by a duck.
“Did you hear that duck make a quack?”
- Verb
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Of a duck, to make its characteristic vocalisation.
“The more breadcrumbs I threw on the ground, the more they quacked.”
- Verb
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To make a sound similar to the quack of a duck.
- Interjection
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A duck's quack.
Alternative forms: quaake
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Wordle status
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Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: April 28, 2026 (#1774).
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See what the public sample says →How QUACK performs as a guess
QUACK is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 66.1% of games, misses completely in 33.9%, and leaves about 393 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,744 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.88 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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First-turn measures
All four describe QUACK 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How QUACK 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches QUACK in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
QUACK can come back 52 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for QUACK; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing QUACK
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to QUACK.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing QUACK:
Research on QUACK
Game-tree analysis and word research for QUACK, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with QUACK, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.90 guesses and ranks #13,765 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 4.05 guesses at best and is rank #6,759 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.88, at or below the proven-optimal 3.90, 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.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, QUACK is a kind of doctor or sound.
Synonyms unqualified
Opposites qualified
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- QUACK sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 56 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (4.6 of 5).
In a sentence
He must be a quack doctor.
Mary is a quack doctor.
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).