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Possible answer Not used yet F tier opener

SHOOK

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

As an opener, it rules out about 82.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ʃʊk//ʃɵk//ʃʉk/

Noun

A set of pieces for making a cask or box, usually wood.

Noun

The parts of a piece of house furniture, as a bedstead, packed together.

Verb

To pack (staves, etc.) in a shook.

Verb

simple past of shake.

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 SHOOK performs as a guess

SHOOK 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 61.5% of games, misses completely in 38.5%, and leaves about 413 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,108 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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__O_ S in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _H__K H in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position

Try next

RAILE TALER LEANT TARSE CARTE PLANE
Words starting with S Words ending with K

First-turn measures

3.74 Entropy (bits)
413 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
82.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 13% of evaluated openers
2.21 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SHOOK 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#12,108 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SHOOK ranks #12,108 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
37
3 guesses
721
4 guesses
1,267
5 guesses
297
6 guesses
31
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
2 vowels
Common:
OS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
62%
Green tile
33%
All gray
38%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SHOOK in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

73 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

907
217
195
140
128
91
72
53
49
47
44
39
33
32
31
26
16
14
14
12
11
11
11
10
10
10
9
9
8
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SHOOK:

38% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
9% chance
Suggested:
TALER
8% chance
Suggested:
LEANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

38.5% →
RAILE 6.27 bits
9.2% →
TALER 4.86 bits
8.3% →
LEANT 5.40 bits
5.9% →
TARSE 5.43 bits
5.4% →
CARTE 5.26 bits
3.9% →
PLANE 4.69 bits
3.1% →
MARLE 4.57 bits
2.2% →
TRICE 4.97 bits
2.1% →
CRAPE 4.60 bits
2.0% →
RAILE 4.61 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1H4O1O1K5
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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