5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

SACKS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of sack

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of sack

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 SACKS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SACKS 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 67.4% of games, misses completely in 32.6%, and leaves about 346 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,800 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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.

S___S S in the 1st position and S in the 5th position S__K_ S in the 1st position and K in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE ALERT TRINE CRINE RUOTE PLATE
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.81 Entropy (bits)
346 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.3% 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 opener: v5 benchmark

How SACKS 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#11,800 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SACKS ranks #11,800 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
20
3 guesses
753
4 guesses
1,265
5 guesses
295
6 guesses
19
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
AS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
67%
Green tile
33%
All gray
33%

Feedback distribution

58 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

768
328
181
172
166
105
70
60
43
37
31
29
26
23
21
20
19
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11
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9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SACKS:

33% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
14% chance
Suggested:
ALERT
8% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.6% →
TOILE 6.03 bits
13.9% →
ALERT 5.61 bits
7.7% →
TRINE 4.74 bits
7.3% →
TRINE 5.09 bits
7.0% →
CRINE 5.32 bits
4.5% →
RUOTE 5.48 bits
3.0% →
PLATE 4.46 bits
2.5% →
TIARE 4.76 bits
1.8% →
CONTE 3.93 bits
1.6% →
URATE 4.25 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1A1C3K5S1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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