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

TREKS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of trek

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative 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 TREKS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TREKS 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 85.3% of games, misses completely in 14.7%, and leaves about 140 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,985 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

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Useful pattern pages

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

T___S T in the 1st position and S in the 5th position T__K_ T in the 1st position and K in the 4th position _R__S R in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TREKS 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.

4.91 Entropy (bits)
140 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 78% of evaluated openers
1.04 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TREKS 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#4,985 Rank among openers
Opening with TREKS solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.67 average. It ranks #4,985 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
903
4 guesses
1,170
5 guesses
205
6 guesses
18
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:
ERST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
25%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

TREKS can come back 96 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

349 answers
273 answers
179 answers
143 answers
141 answers
135 answers
82 answers
81 answers
79 answers
79 answers
51 answers
50 answers
43 answers
38 answers
37 answers
35 answers
35 answers
34 answers
31 answers
25 answers
23 answers
20 answers
20 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1R1E1K5S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

DAILY ANILE AINEE CAROL HAUNT SNAIL

Strategy after playing TREKS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TREKS:

15% chance
Suggested:
DAILY
11% chance
Suggested:
ANILE
8% chance
Suggested:
AINEE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.7% →
DAILY 5.59 bits
11.5% →
ANILE 5.40 bits
7.5% →
AINEE 4.30 bits
6.0% →
CAROL 5.30 bits
5.9% →
HAUNT 4.94 bits
5.7% →
SNAIL 5.20 bits
3.5% →
SLANE 4.46 bits
3.4% →
LAIDE 4.48 bits
3.3% →
DRAIN 4.36 bits
3.3% →
SAINT 4.53 bits

Research on TREKS

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

Optimal play

Opening with TREKS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #4,477 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 #1,790 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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 TREHKS.

Rhymes with DECKS SPECS FEDEX NECKS EXECS

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, TREKS is a kind of journey or trip.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TREKS sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (1.8 of 5).

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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).