5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

SLACK

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /slæk/

Noun

The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it.

“the slack of a rope or of a sail”

Noun

A dip in a surface.

Adjective

Lax; not tense; not firmly extended.

“a slack rope”

Adjective

Weak; not holding fast.

“a slack hand”

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 SLACK performs as a guess

SLACK 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 76.8% of games, misses completely in 23.2%, and leaves about 197 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,438 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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__C_ S in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _L__K L in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position

Try next

TONER LIBEL RUOTE TALER CRONE TRIDE
Words starting with S Words ending with K

First-turn measures

4.74 Entropy (bits)
197 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.6% 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 SLACK 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#2,438 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SLACK ranks #2,438 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
971
4 guesses
1,141
5 guesses
179
6 guesses
10
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:
ALS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
36%
All gray
23%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SLACK in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

105 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

548
240
166
135
115
113
86
80
58
56
54
42
37
32
30
28
23
23
21
21
20
17
16
16
15
15
15
14
14
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SLACK:

23% chance
Suggested:
TONER
10% chance
Suggested:
TONER
7% chance
Suggested:
LIBEL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.2% →
TONER 6.13 bits
10.2% →
TONER 5.43 bits
7.0% →
LIBEL 5.13 bits
5.7% →
TONER 5.12 bits
4.9% →
RUOTE 5.54 bits
4.8% →
TALER 4.59 bits
3.6% →
CRONE 5.14 bits
3.4% →
TRIDE 5.05 bits
2.5% →
RIONE 4.50 bits
2.4% →
TONER 4.67 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1L1A1C3K5
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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