5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

STICK

Yes, STICK was the Wordle answer on September 18, 2022 (Wordle #456).

As an opener, it rules out about 89.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /stɪk/

Noun

An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.

“The beaver's dam was made out of sticks.”

Noun

Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.

“Sealing wax is available as a cylindrical or rectangular stick.”

Verb

To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.

Verb

To furnish or set with sticks.

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: September 18, 2022 (#456).

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

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How STICK performs as a guess

STICK is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,359 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 73.4% of games, misses completely in 26.6%, and leaves about 239 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,701 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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 _T__K T in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position

Try next

MARLE TREAT LINER PARLE PORAE HAOLE
Words starting with S Words ending with K

First-turn measures

4.44 Entropy (bits)
239 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
89.9% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How STICK 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#4,701 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, STICK ranks #4,701 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
917
4 guesses
1,179
5 guesses
197
6 guesses
13

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
IST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
32%
All gray
27%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches STICK in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

88 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

628
249
166
129
116
104
98
86
59
49
44
41
41
37
36
30
26
26
26
23
22
21
19
19
16
13
12
12
10
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing STICK:

27% chance
Suggested:
MARLE
11% chance
Suggested:
TREAT
7% chance
Suggested:
LINER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.6% →
MARLE 6.01 bits
10.6% →
TREAT 5.60 bits
7.0% →
LINER 5.19 bits
5.5% →
PARLE 5.32 bits
4.9% →
PORAE 5.49 bits
4.4% →
HAOLE 5.18 bits
4.2% →
DRONE 5.14 bits
3.6% →
TRAIT 4.30 bits
2.5% →
AROSE 4.60 bits
2.1% →
PLANE 4.57 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1T1I1C3K5
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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