5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

SHARK

SHARK is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 92.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ʃɑːk//ʃɑɹk/

Noun

Any predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.

Noun

Meat of this animal, consumed as food.

Verb

Of a university student who is not a fresher (first-year undergraduate), and especially towards the start of the academic year:

Verb

To fish for sharks.

Alternative forms: sharke

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

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 SHARK performs as a guess

SHARK 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 81.2% of games, misses completely in 18.8%, and leaves about 182 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,740 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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___K S in the 1st position and K in the 5th position S__R_ S in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _H__K H in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE TALER CLOTE TOISE BLITE CLINE
Words starting with S Words ending with K

First-turn measures

4.74 Entropy (bits)
182 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 68% of evaluated openers
1.21 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SHARK 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#4,740 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SHARK ranks #4,740 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
923
4 guesses
1,152
5 guesses
211
6 guesses
15
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:
ARS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
34%
All gray
19%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SHARK in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

98 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

444
298
274
126
120
95
76
61
51
47
45
36
33
31
31
29
28
26
25
24
21
20
19
18
17
16
15
15
15
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SHARK:

19% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
13% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
12% chance
Suggested:
TOILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.8% →
TOILE 6.13 bits
12.6% →
TOILE 5.15 bits
11.6% →
TOILE 5.24 bits
5.3% →
TALER 4.70 bits
5.1% →
TOILE 5.18 bits
4.0% →
CLOTE 4.87 bits
3.2% →
TOISE 4.95 bits
2.6% →
BLITE 4.46 bits
2.2% →
CLINE 3.88 bits
2.0% →
ROUET 4.67 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1H4A1R1K5
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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