5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier for first-turn info

STRAK

STRAK is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.

As an opener, it rules out about 93.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

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 STRAK performs as a guess

Wordle accepts STRAK as a guess, but the solver does not list it as a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 83.3% of games, misses completely in 16.7%, and leaves about 148 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,378 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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__A_ S in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _T__K T in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position

Try next

MOILE DRIER CLINE TITLE CADRE TRIER
Words starting with S Words ending with K

First-turn measures

All four describe STRAK 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.

4.91 Entropy (bits)
148 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 79% of evaluated openers
1.04 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How STRAK 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#3,378 Rank among openers
Opening with STRAK left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.64 average. It ranks #3,378 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
941
4 guesses
1,152
5 guesses
184
6 guesses
16
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:
ARST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
30%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

STRAK can come back 101 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

395 answers
229 answers
208 answers
171 answers
129 answers
102 answers
92 answers
77 answers
63 answers
54 answers
50 answers
47 answers
45 answers
41 answers
34 answers
32 answers
30 answers
26 answers
26 answers
25 answers
25 answers
25 answers
24 answers
23 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
15 answers
14 answers

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing STRAK:

17% chance
Suggested:
MOILE
10% chance
Suggested:
DRIER
9% chance
Suggested:
CLINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.7% →
MOILE 5.91 bits
9.7% →
DRIER 5.11 bits
8.8% →
CLINE 5.34 bits
7.2% →
TITLE 5.16 bits
5.5% →
CADRE 4.45 bits
4.3% →
CLINE 4.40 bits
3.9% →
CLINE 5.16 bits
3.3% →
TRIER 4.54 bits
2.7% →
MOILE 4.60 bits
2.3% →
CONEY 4.50 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1T1R1A1K5
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

The science of STRAK

What game-tree analysis and word research measure about STRAK — each figure with what it means.

Optimal play

Opening with STRAK, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses — rank #3,644 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.79 guesses at best — rank #1,133 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.64 — at or below the proven-optimal 3.68 only 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) — not the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

One syllable — say it STRAK. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.