5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

SLINK

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /slɪŋk/

Verb

To sneak about furtively.

Verb

To give birth to an animal prematurely.

“a cow that slinks her calf”

Noun

A furtive sneaking motion.

Noun

The young of an animal when born prematurely, especially a calf.

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 SLINK performs as a guess

SLINK 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 76.3% of games, misses completely in 23.7%, and leaves about 201 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,154 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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__N_ S in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _L__K L in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position

Try next

ROATE CADET URATE MORAE PARTE TRADE
Words starting with S Words ending with K

First-turn measures

4.66 Entropy (bits)
201 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 62% of evaluated openers
1.29 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SLINK 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#2,154 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SLINK ranks #2,154 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
1,001
4 guesses
1,092
5 guesses
188
6 guesses
17
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:
ILNS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
36%
All gray
24%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
S L I C K
S L I N K

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SLINK in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

99 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

560
211
150
138
136
135
81
75
74
67
64
40
33
32
29
27
25
25
24
23
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14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SLINK:

24% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
9% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
6% chance
Suggested:
CADET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.7% →
ROATE 6.23 bits
8.9% →
ROATE 5.22 bits
6.4% →
CADET 5.28 bits
5.9% →
URATE 5.50 bits
5.8% →
MORAE 5.32 bits
5.7% →
PARTE 5.58 bits
3.4% →
URATE 4.72 bits
3.2% →
CADET 4.45 bits
3.1% →
TRADE 4.87 bits
2.8% →
LIBEL 4.23 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1L1I1N1K5
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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