5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet B tier opener

STOKE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /stəʊk//stoʊk//stəʉk/

Noun

An act of poking, piercing, thrusting

Verb

To feed, stir up, especially, a fire or furnace.

Verb

To encourage a behavior or emotion.

Noun

Misconstruction of stokes, a unit of kinematic viscosity.

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 STOKE performs as a guess

STOKE 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 86.6% of games, misses completely in 13.4%, and leaves about 134 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,160 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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___E S in the 1st position and E in the 5th position S__K_ S in the 1st position and K in the 4th position _T__E T in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

LAIRY ARIEL RAILE TAINT HEART CLARY
Words starting with S Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.95 Entropy (bits)
134 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.3% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How STOKE 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#8,160 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, STOKE ranks #8,160 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
56
3 guesses
816
4 guesses
1,217
5 guesses
243
6 guesses
19

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EOST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
38%
All gray
13%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L A N K
S T O K E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches STOKE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

94 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

317
271
178
168
157
121
80
73
73
64
63
46
43
41
39
31
29
28
27
24
24
23
22
22
22
21
21
19
17
17

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing STOKE:

13% chance
Suggested:
LAIRY
11% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
8% chance
Suggested:
LAIRY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.4% →
LAIRY 5.75 bits
11.5% →
ARIEL 5.18 bits
7.5% →
LAIRY 4.89 bits
7.1% →
RAILE 4.46 bits
6.7% →
TAINT 5.34 bits
5.1% →
HEART 4.70 bits
3.4% →
CLARY 4.73 bits
3.1% →
DROOL 4.22 bits
3.1% →
ROANY 4.06 bits
2.7% →
CRASS 4.56 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1T1O1K5E1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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