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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

STORK

Yes, STORK was the Wordle answer on August 5, 2025 (Wordle #1508).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /stɔɹk//stɔːk//stoːk/

Noun

A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the order Ciconiiformes and its family Ciconiidae.

Noun

The mythical bringer of babies to families, or good news.

“My sister's expecting a visit from the stork.”

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: August 5, 2025 (#1508).

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

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How STORK performs as a guess

STORK 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 81.3% of games, misses completely in 18.7%, and leaves about 167 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,201 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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__R_ S in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _T__K T in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position

Try next

ANILE LAIDE LATTE LEANY PLANE CARER
Words starting with S Words ending with K

First-turn measures

4.77 Entropy (bits)
167 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 69% of evaluated openers
1.18 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How STORK 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
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#4,201 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, STORK ranks #4,201 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
48
3 guesses
944
4 guesses
1,142
5 guesses
196
6 guesses
20
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:
ORST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
30%
All gray
19%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches STORK in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

92 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

440
263
213
158
110
92
91
80
66
54
53
44
44
36
36
33
33
30
29
24
24
22
20
19
18
18
16
15
14
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing STORK:

19% chance
Suggested:
ANILE
11% chance
Suggested:
LAIDE
9% chance
Suggested:
LATTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.7% →
ANILE 6.17 bits
11.2% →
LAIDE 5.40 bits
9.0% →
LATTE 5.35 bits
6.7% →
LEANY 4.81 bits
4.7% →
PLANE 5.26 bits
3.9% →
CARER 4.50 bits
3.9% →
TREAT 4.73 bits
3.4% →
LEASH 4.93 bits
2.8% →
LIANE 4.04 bits
2.3% →
CLADE 4.38 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1T1O1R1K5
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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