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THICK

Yes, THICK was the Wordle answer on November 22, 2025 (Wordle #1617).

As an opener, it rules out about 87.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /θɪk//θɘk/

Adjective

Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.

Adjective

Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension.

“I want some planks that are two inches thick.”

Adverb

In a thick manner.

“Snow lay thick on the ground.”

Adverb

Frequently or numerously.

“The arrows flew thick and fast around us.”

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: November 22, 2025 (#1617).

See the full page for that puzzle: November 22, 2025 (#1617).

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

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How THICK performs as a guess

THICK 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 69.0% of games, misses completely in 31.0%, and leaves about 302 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,827 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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__C_ T in the 1st position and C 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 THICK.

First-turn measures

All four describe THICK 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.

4.21 Entropy (bits)
302 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
87.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 33% of evaluated openers
1.74 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How THICK 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#6,827 Rank among openers
Opening with THICK solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.70 average. It ranks #6,827 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
882
4 guesses
1,180
5 guesses
237
6 guesses
12
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
IT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
69%
Green tile
28%
All gray
31%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S H U N T
T H I C K

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches THICK in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

THICK can come back 88 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

737 answers
258 answers
201 answers
139 answers
122 answers
84 answers
69 answers
66 answers
55 answers
44 answers
42 answers
38 answers
37 answers
33 answers
32 answers
27 answers
24 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers
16 answers
16 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1H4I1C3K5
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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

Try next

SOARE SALET SIDLE CARLE GLARE SAYER

Strategy after playing THICK

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing THICK:

31% chance
Suggested:
SOARE
11% chance
Suggested:
SALET
8% chance
Suggested:
SIDLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.0% →
SOARE 6.01 bits
10.9% →
SALET 5.70 bits
8.5% →
SIDLE 5.13 bits
5.9% →
CARLE 5.73 bits
5.1% →
GLARE 5.12 bits
3.5% →
SAYER 5.08 bits
2.9% →
SENOR 4.74 bits
2.8% →
SIENT 4.26 bits
2.3% →
ANOLE 4.90 bits
1.9% →
PARLE 4.75 bits

Research on THICK

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

Optimal play

Opening with THICK, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #7,982 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with THICK can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.70, at or below the proven-optimal 3.75, 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 THIHK.

Rhymes with QUICK CLICK STICK TRICK BRICK

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, THICK is a kind of inside.

Synonyms deep compact DENSE MIDST little CLOSE

Opposites thin SMART tall distributed

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
THICK sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 29 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 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 55 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.

In a sentence

How thick is the board?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
This book is very thick.
© tatoeba.org contributor Source_VOA (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).