5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

SHEIK

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ʃeɪk//ʃik/

Noun

The leader of an Arab village, family or small tribe.

Noun

An Islamic religious cleric; the master of a Sufi order.

Alternative forms: sheikh, shaykh

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 SHEIK performs as a guess

SHEIK 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 82.4% of games, misses completely in 17.6%, and leaves about 196 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,173 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.

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__I_ S in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _H__K H in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position

Try next

LAREE TALON GLINT DINER ROANY CADET
Words starting with S Words ending with K

First-turn measures

4.60 Entropy (bits)
196 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 59% of evaluated openers
1.35 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SHEIK 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
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#8,173 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SHEIK ranks #8,173 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
846
4 guesses
1,169
5 guesses
271
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
2 vowels
Common:
EIS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
33%
All gray
18%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E N
S H E I K

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SHEIK in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

87 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

436
414
151
129
107
102
92
71
67
66
52
49
37
32
30
28
26
25
25
22
21
21
20
20
19
15
15
13
12
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SHEIK:

18% chance
Suggested:
LAREE
18% chance
Suggested:
TALON
6% chance
Suggested:
GLINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.5% →
LAREE 5.50 bits
17.6% →
TALON 5.81 bits
6.4% →
GLINT 4.93 bits
5.5% →
DINER 4.74 bits
4.5% →
ROANY 4.78 bits
4.3% →
CADET 4.44 bits
3.9% →
MOUTH 4.79 bits
3.0% →
ROAST 4.83 bits
2.8% →
TREAD 4.65 bits
2.8% →
URATE 4.52 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1H4E1I1K5
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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