5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

SPUNK

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /spʌŋk/

Noun

Touchwood; tinder.

Noun

Courage; spirit; mettle; determination.

Verb

To ejaculate.

“He spunked into the condom.”

Verb

To waste (money etc.).

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 SPUNK performs as a guess

SPUNK 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 65.7% of games, misses completely in 34.3%, and leaves about 339 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,986 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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

TALER GOIER THALE PARLE ROATE GRATE
Words starting with S Words ending with K

First-turn measures

4.09 Entropy (bits)
339 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
85.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 27% of evaluated openers
1.86 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SPUNK 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#5,986 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SPUNK ranks #5,986 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
883
4 guesses
1,175
5 guesses
228
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:
NSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
66%
Green tile
29%
All gray
34%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SPUNK in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

87 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

809
214
145
136
135
135
79
60
43
39
35
33
32
28
28
25
23
22
21
19
19
18
18
17
15
15
13
12
12
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SPUNK:

34% chance
Suggested:
TALER
9% chance
Suggested:
GOIER
6% chance
Suggested:
THALE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

34.3% →
TALER 6.19 bits
9.1% →
GOIER 5.33 bits
6.1% →
THALE 5.53 bits
5.8% →
PARLE 5.52 bits
5.7% →
TALER 4.93 bits
5.7% →
ROATE 5.48 bits
3.4% →
GRATE 4.98 bits
2.5% →
CLOTE 4.99 bits
1.8% →
TUILE 4.35 bits
1.7% →
CARLE 4.39 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1P3U1N1K5
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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