5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

SILKS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of silk

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of silk

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 SILKS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SILKS 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 67.8% of games, misses completely in 32.2%, and leaves about 336 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,597 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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 _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ROATE TRONE PARTE RONTE GLARE HAOLE
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.84 Entropy (bits)
336 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.8% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SILKS 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#10,597 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SILKS ranks #10,597 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
38
3 guesses
776
4 guesses
1,239
5 guesses
279
6 guesses
21

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ILS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
31%
All gray
32%

Feedback distribution

70 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

760
282
231
172
121
120
78
63
52
45
43
30
27
26
26
24
23
17
16
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
9
9
9
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SILKS:

32% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
12% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
10% chance
Suggested:
TRONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.2% →
ROATE 6.19 bits
12.0% →
ROATE 5.40 bits
9.8% →
TRONE 5.64 bits
7.3% →
PARTE 5.52 bits
5.1% →
ROATE 5.53 bits
5.1% →
RONTE 4.81 bits
3.3% →
GLARE 4.56 bits
2.7% →
HAOLE 4.37 bits
2.2% →
CARNE 4.77 bits
1.9% →
THALE 4.48 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1I1L1K5S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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