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SMOCK

Yes, SMOCK was the Wordle answer on July 28, 2024 (Wordle #1135).

As an opener, it rules out about 87.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /smɒk//smɑk/

Noun

A type of undergarment worn by women; a shift or slip.

Noun

A blouse; a smock frock.

Adjective

Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock

Adjective

Hence, of or pertaining to a woman.

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

Used once

Past Wordle answer: July 28, 2024 (#1135).

See the full page for that puzzle: July 28, 2024 (#1135).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How SMOCK performs as a guess

SMOCK is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 68.7% of games, misses completely in 31.3%, and leaves about 304 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,540 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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 _M__K M in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in SMOCK.

First-turn measures

All four describe SMOCK used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

4.11 Entropy (bits)
304 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
87.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 28% of evaluated openers
1.84 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SMOCK 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#7,540 Rank among openers
Opening with SMOCK left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.71 average. It ranks #7,540 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
863
4 guesses
1,202
5 guesses
234
6 guesses
14
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
OS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
69%
Green tile
31%
All gray
31%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SMOCK in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

SMOCK can come back 73 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

743 answers
227 answers
190 answers
142 answers
120 answers
114 answers
112 answers
74 answers
61 answers
48 answers
43 answers
41 answers
39 answers
26 answers
23 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1M3O1C3K5
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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

Try next

RAILE RONTE LEANT TARSE LATER TRADE

Strategy after playing SMOCK

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to SMOCK.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SMOCK:

31% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
10% chance
Suggested:
RONTE
8% chance
Suggested:
LEANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.3% →
RAILE 6.28 bits
9.6% →
RONTE 5.30 bits
8.0% →
LEANT 5.40 bits
6.0% →
TARSE 5.49 bits
5.1% →
LATER 5.46 bits
4.8% →
TRADE 4.70 bits
4.7% →
MAILE 5.17 bits
3.1% →
TIARE 4.76 bits
2.6% →
LATER 4.43 bits
2.0% →
CANER 4.65 bits

Research on SMOCK

Game-tree analysis and word research for SMOCK, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with SMOCK, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,579 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.85 guesses at best and is rank #2,971 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, at or below the proven-optimal 3.74, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it SMAHK.

Rhymes with STOCK BLOCK SHOCK CLOCK KNOCK

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SMOCK is a kind of wear or grace.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SMOCK sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.5 of 5).

In a sentence

She wore one of her daddy's old shirts as a paint smock.
© tatoeba.org contributor sangelo (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).