5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

STUNK

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /stʌŋk/

Verb

simple past and past participle of stink

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 STUNK performs as a guess

STUNK 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 72.3% of games, misses completely in 27.7%, and leaves about 261 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,420 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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__N_ S in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _T__K T in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position

Try next

RAILE TREAT ARIEL PARLE MARLE IRADE
Words starting with S Words ending with K

First-turn measures

4.36 Entropy (bits)
261 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
88.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 42% of evaluated openers
1.59 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How STUNK 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#5,420 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, STUNK ranks #5,420 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
897
4 guesses
1,164
5 guesses
225
6 guesses
11
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:
NSTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
29%
All gray
28%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S H U N T
S T U N G
S T U N K

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches STUNK in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

92 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

654
292
196
125
115
101
68
60
45
43
37
36
36
36
35
34
31
29
26
24
18
17
16
16
15
15
13
12
12
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing STUNK:

28% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
12% chance
Suggested:
TREAT
8% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.7% →
RAILE 6.25 bits
12.4% →
TREAT 5.67 bits
8.3% →
ARIEL 5.37 bits
5.3% →
PARLE 5.48 bits
4.9% →
MARLE 4.77 bits
4.3% →
PARLE 5.14 bits
2.9% →
IRADE 4.83 bits
2.5% →
AROSE 4.57 bits
1.9% →
PLORE 4.62 bits
1.8% →
BLORE 4.42 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1T1U1N1K5
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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