5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

SLUNK

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /slʌŋk/

Noun

An animal, especially a calf, born prematurely or abortively.

Verb

simple past and past participle of slink

Noun

A slough, a low, wet, miry place. (Compare slank.)

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 SLUNK performs as a guess

SLUNK 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 73.5% of games, misses completely in 26.5%, and leaves about 239 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,116 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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

ORATE RAILE GOIER PARTE TRAPE PORTE
Words starting with S Words ending with K

First-turn measures

4.45 Entropy (bits)
239 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
89.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 49% of evaluated openers
1.49 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SLUNK 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#5,116 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SLUNK ranks #5,116 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
932
4 guesses
1,127
5 guesses
225
6 guesses
18
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:
LNSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
33%
All gray
26%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SLUNK in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

92 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

625
249
185
133
131
112
80
76
50
47
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27
23
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14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SLUNK:

27% chance
Suggested:
ORATE
11% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
8% chance
Suggested:
GOIER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.5% →
ORATE 6.16 bits
10.6% →
RAILE 5.38 bits
7.8% →
GOIER 5.33 bits
5.6% →
PARTE 5.58 bits
5.6% →
TRAPE 5.54 bits
4.7% →
PORTE 4.78 bits
3.4% →
TIARE 4.83 bits
3.2% →
IRATE 4.99 bits
2.1% →
THALE 4.50 bits
2.0% →
TRACE 4.82 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1L1U1N1K5
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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