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STOCK

Yes, STOCK was the Wordle answer on April 2, 2023 (Wordle #652).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /stɒk//stɑk/

Noun

A store or supply.

Noun

The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares; the total of shares held by an individual shareholder.

“His grandpa had bought some stock in General Electric in 1905, and he refused to sell it ever after.”

Verb

To have on hand for sale.

“The store stocks all kinds of dried vegetables.”

Verb

To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.

“to stock a warehouse with goods”

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

* As an English surname, from the noun stock (“stock, tree stump”). This sense is also found respectively in Dutch and German, and Slavic borrowings of them. Compare Stocker.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

One syllable Say it STAHK.

Rhymes with BLOCK SHOCK CLOCK KNOCK BROCK

Related meanings

Synonyms line BLOOD standard STORE CARRY fund

Opposites original irregular

In a sentence

That one, it is in stock.
© tatoeba.org contributor belgavox (CC BY 2.0 FR)
We have no more in stock.
© tatoeba.org contributor mailohilohi (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use STOCK in a puzzle

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

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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: April 2, 2023 (#652).

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STOCK in Connections

8 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . Showing the 5 most recent. A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

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Reviewed context · 2026-10-02

COMMON can mean ordinary; ROUTINE can mean habitual or conventional; STANDARD can mean customary; and STOCK can describe an ordinary, ready-made response. The official CUSTOMARY category selects these adjective senses. Their other meanings do not have to overlap.

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Dictionary-derived explanations identified below are original paraphrases adapted under the stated licence. Original board arrangements and mechanical checks are identified separately; the sources do not endorse this exercise.

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Reviewed context · 2024-11-04

For EQUIP, read STOCK as a verb: provide a place with needed supplies. FURNISH can mean provide furniture or equipment; OUTFIT means provide what is needed for a purpose; PROVISION means supply provisions. The shared supplying or equipping sense selects the verb use of STOCK, rather than its cooking-liquid or financial noun senses.

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  • Wiktionary contributors, stock, linked revision

    STOCK has a cooking noun sense: liquid made from meat, bones or vegetables and used as a soup or stew base. It also has a verb sense of supplying material requirements or providing supplies.

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  • Wiktionary contributors, furnish, linked revision

    FURNISH can mean provide a place with furniture or other equipment.

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  • Wiktionary contributors, outfit, linked revision

    OUTFIT as a verb can mean provide someone or something with what is needed for a particular purpose.

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  • Wiktionary contributors, provision, linked revision

    PROVISION as a verb means supply with provisions; provisions are supplies, especially food, obtained for later use.

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Reviewed context · 2024-02-18

In this recorded minestrone group, STOCK means cooking liquid used as a soup base. BEANS, PASTA and VEGETABLES are the other ingredients named in the group. Minestrone recipes vary, so the recorded category is not a claim that every recipe uses exactly these ingredients. This is the cooking noun sense of STOCK, rather than its financial or supply-as-a-verb senses.

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Dictionary-derived explanations identified below are original paraphrases adapted under the stated licence. Original board arrangements and mechanical checks are identified separately; the sources do not endorse this exercise.

  • Wiktionary contributors, stock, linked revision

    STOCK has a cooking noun sense: liquid made from meat, bones or vegetables and used as a soup or stew base. It also has a verb sense of supplying material requirements or providing supplies.

    Source revision checked. CC BY-SA 4.0.

    Original concise paraphrase of contributor-written definitions or factual prose. The puzzle-context explanation is independently authored. Adapted text is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. No third-party quotations, media or publisher hint prose are reused.

  • Wikipedia contributors, Minestrone, linked revision

    Minestrone is an Italian vegetable soup often containing legumes such as beans and sometimes pasta or rice. It has no fixed recipe, and ingredients vary.

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How STOCK performs as a guess

STOCK is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 74.9% of games, misses completely in 25.1%, and leaves about 232 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,828 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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 ST_CK S in the 1st position, T in the 2nd position, C in the 4th position, and K in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe STOCK 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.

4.44 Entropy (bits)
232 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How STOCK 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
99.92% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#4,828 Rank among openers
Opening with STOCK left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.67 average. It ranks #4,828 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
934
4 guesses
1,161
5 guesses
202
6 guesses
15

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
OST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
31%
All gray
25%

Example solver route

R O A T E
P U N C H
S T O C K

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches STOCK in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

STOCK can come back 84 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

599 answers
271 answers
209 answers
136 answers
114 answers
101 answers
94 answers
80 answers
56 answers
51 answers
47 answers
41 answers
40 answers
39 answers
30 answers
29 answers
28 answers
27 answers
23 answers
22 answers
19 answers
19 answers
17 answers
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15 answers
15 answers
13 answers
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12 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1T1O1C3K5
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

RAILE ARIEL MORNE GRADE TONER TASER

Strategy after playing STOCK

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing STOCK:

25% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
11% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
9% chance
Suggested:
MORNE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.1% →
RAILE 6.36 bits
11.4% →
ARIEL 5.63 bits
8.8% →
MORNE 5.25 bits
5.7% →
RAILE 5.22 bits
4.8% →
RAILE 5.54 bits
4.2% →
RAILE 5.25 bits
3.9% →
GRADE 4.76 bits
3.4% →
TONER 4.40 bits
2.3% →
TASER 4.57 bits
2.1% →
LIANE 4.55 bits

Research on STOCK

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

Optimal play

Opening with STOCK, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,108 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.82 guesses at best and is rank #2,059 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
STOCK sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 85 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 10, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 62 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.2 of 5).

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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).