5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

SWANK

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

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

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈswæŋk/[ˈswæŋk]/ˈsweɪ̯ŋk/

Adjective

Fashionably elegant, posh.

Noun

A fashionably elegant person.

Noun

Ostentation; bravado.

Verb

To swagger, to show off.

“Looks like she's going to swank in, flashing her diamonds, then swank out to another party.”

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

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 SWANK performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SWANK 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 73.0% of games, misses completely in 27.0%, and leaves about 262 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,569 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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 _W__K W in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE TALER LINER PORTE RUOTE TRICE
Words starting with S Words ending with K

First-turn measures

4.29 Entropy (bits)
262 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 38% of evaluated openers
1.66 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SWANK 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#7,569 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SWANK ranks #7,569 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
834
4 guesses
1,208
5 guesses
244
6 guesses
12
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:
ANS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
33%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

91 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

637
337
152
130
125
119
90
69
60
48
45
39
36
27
26
25
22
21
20
16
16
16
15
14
13
12
11
10
10
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SWANK:

27% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
14% chance
Suggested:
TALER
6% chance
Suggested:
LINER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.0% →
TOILE 6.02 bits
14.3% →
TALER 5.59 bits
6.4% →
LINER 5.10 bits
5.5% →
PORTE 5.19 bits
5.3% →
RUOTE 5.49 bits
5.0% →
TRICE 5.16 bits
3.8% →
CANOE 4.53 bits
2.9% →
TRIDE 4.69 bits
2.5% →
TRODE 4.89 bits
2.0% →
PAISE 4.30 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1W4A1N1K5
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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