5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

SPANK

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈspæŋk/[ˈspæŋk]/ˈspeɪ̯ŋk/

Verb

To beat, smack or slap a person's buttocks, with the bare hand or other object, as punishment, or for sexual gratification.

Verb

To soundly defeat, to trounce.

Noun

An instance of spanking, separately or part of a multiple blows-beating; a smack, swat, or slap.

Noun

A slapping sound, as produced by spanking.

Alternative forms: spaink, spenk

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 SPANK performs as a guess

SPANK 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 75.2% of games, misses completely in 24.8%, and leaves about 228 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,335 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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 _P__K P in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE TALER DINER PROLE TRIDE ROUET
Words starting with S Words ending with K

First-turn measures

4.50 Entropy (bits)
228 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 52% of evaluated openers
1.44 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SPANK 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#3,335 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SPANK ranks #3,335 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
61
3 guesses
917
4 guesses
1,184
5 guesses
177
6 guesses
12
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:
ANS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
33%
All gray
25%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SPANK in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

98 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

584
307
162
115
113
111
105
86
67
41
41
39
35
33
26
26
25
22
22
21
20
18
18
16
14
14
14
12
11
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SPANK:

25% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
13% chance
Suggested:
TALER
7% chance
Suggested:
DINER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.8% →
TOILE 6.07 bits
13.0% →
TALER 5.61 bits
6.9% →
DINER 5.14 bits
4.9% →
PROLE 5.17 bits
4.8% →
TRIDE 5.01 bits
4.7% →
ROUET 5.47 bits
4.5% →
TOILE 5.01 bits
3.6% →
CANOE 4.41 bits
2.8% →
GOIER 4.76 bits
1.7% →
PARTE 4.69 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1P3A1N1K5
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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