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

TRECK

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.4% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Archaic form of trek.

Verb

Archaic form of trek.

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 TRECK performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TRECK 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 83.6% of games, misses completely in 16.4%, and leaves about 158 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,388 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe TRECK 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.

4.85 Entropy (bits)
158 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 75% of evaluated openers
1.10 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TRECK 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
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#4,388 Rank among openers
Opening with TRECK left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.66 average. It ranks #4,388 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
916
4 guesses
1,161
5 guesses
201
6 guesses
16
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ERT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
29%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

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

389 answers
288 answers
202 answers
185 answers
135 answers
102 answers
90 answers
78 answers
50 answers
49 answers
43 answers
41 answers
39 answers
38 answers
37 answers
31 answers
28 answers
28 answers
28 answers
25 answers
25 answers
23 answers
23 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1R1E1C3K5
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Strategy after playing TRECK

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TRECK:

16% chance
Suggested:
SALON
12% chance
Suggested:
ANILE
9% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.4%
SALON 5.84 bits
12.1%
ANILE 5.37 bits
8.5%
SOLAR 4.40 bits
7.8%
SAINT 5.42 bits
5.7%
LORRY 4.99 bits
4.3%
LEAST 4.77 bits
3.8%
CLAIM 5.12 bits
3.3%
DRAIN 4.35 bits
2.1%
SAINT 4.46 bits
2.1%
SLADE 4.42 bits

Research on TRECK

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

Optimal play

Opening with TRECK, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,702 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.81 guesses at best and is rank #1,725 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 3.70, 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 TREHK. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TRECK sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).