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THANK

Yes, THANK was the Wordle answer on September 26, 2024 (Wordle #1195).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈθæŋk/[ˈθæŋk]/ˈθaŋk/

Verb

To express appreciation or gratitude toward (someone or something).

“She thanked him for the lift.”

Verb

In the future tense in the form one will thank someone to do something, chiefly expressing a command or criticism: to request that (someone) do something.

“I’ll thank you not to smoke in my house!”

Noun

singular of thanks (“an expression of appreciation or gratitude; grateful feelings or thoughts; favour, goodwill, graciousness”)

Alternative forms: thanke

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: September 26, 2024 (#1195).

See the full page for that puzzle: September 26, 2024 (#1195).

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

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How THANK performs as a guess

THANK is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 76.7% of games, misses completely in 23.3%, and leaves about 209 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,365 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

T___K T in the 1st position and K in the 5th position T__N_ T in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _H__K H in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in THANK.

First-turn measures

All four describe THANK 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.

4.59 Entropy (bits)
209 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 58% of evaluated openers
1.35 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How THANK 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#4,365 Rank among openers
Opening with THANK left 1 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 3.66 average. It ranks #4,365 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
903
4 guesses
1,185
5 guesses
196
6 guesses
11
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ANT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
30%
All gray
23%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches THANK in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

THANK can come back 100 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

552 answers
277 answers
191 answers
151 answers
106 answers
97 answers
88 answers
68 answers
67 answers
52 answers
50 answers
45 answers
42 answers
35 answers
31 answers
30 answers
26 answers
25 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1H4A1N1K5
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

DROLE MARLE ROUET GOIER SCIRE SALET

Strategy after playing THANK

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to THANK.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing THANK:

23% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
12% chance
Suggested:
MARLE
8% chance
Suggested:
ROUET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.3% →
DROLE 6.07 bits
11.7% →
MARLE 5.39 bits
8.0% →
ROUET 5.47 bits
6.4% →
GOIER 5.14 bits
4.5% →
SCIRE 4.82 bits
4.1% →
SALET 4.90 bits
3.7% →
CANOE 4.56 bits
2.9% →
GORSE 4.48 bits
2.8% →
SOUCE 4.66 bits
2.2% →
GRICE 4.09 bits

Research on THANK

Game-tree analysis and word research for THANK, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with THANK, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,292 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.82 guesses at best and is rank #2,052 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.71, 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). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it THANGK.

Rhymes with FRANK BLANK DRANK PRANK FLANK

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, THANK is a kind of convey.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
THANK sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 302 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A1); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 4, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 33 of 100. Raters found it difficult to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (3.7 of 5).

In a sentence

I thank you for that.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I have you to thank.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).