5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

TWERK

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /twɜɹk/[tʰw̥ɝk]/twɜːk/

Noun

Synonym of twerking (“a sexually-provocative dance, involving the performer thrusting their hips back from a low squatting stance while shaking their buttocks”).

Verb

To dance in a sexually-provocative way using hip thrusts in a low squatting stance while shaking the buttocks; to take part in twerking.

Noun

An abrupt call, such as that made by the California quail.

Verb

To twitch or jerk.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

Blend of twitch + jerk. The "sexually-provocative dance" sense was particularly popularized since c. 2000 by hip-hop from the United States of America, and again in 2013 by singer Miley Cyrus.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use TWERK in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 91.4% of possible answers.

Open Solver with TWERK Open Word Finder

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How TWERK performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TWERK 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 80.7% of games, misses completely in 19.3%, and leaves about 206 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,286 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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.
See strategy patterns

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__R_ T in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _W__K W in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position TW_RK T in the 1st position, W in the 2nd position, R in the 4th position, and K in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TWERK 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.

4.43 Entropy (bits)
206 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.4% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TWERK 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#9,286 Rank among openers
Opening with TWERK solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.75 average. It ranks #9,286 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
792
4 guesses
1,205
5 guesses
284
6 guesses
14

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ERT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
23%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

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

459 answers
329 answers
231 answers
211 answers
188 answers
116 answers
54 answers
53 answers
52 answers
52 answers
43 answers
38 answers
36 answers
32 answers
31 answers
30 answers
29 answers
28 answers
27 answers
22 answers
22 answers
22 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
12 answers
11 answers
9 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1W4E1R1K5
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

SALON LIANE AINEE SAINT CAROL LEAST

Strategy after playing TWERK

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TWERK:

19% chance
Suggested:
SALON
14% chance
Suggested:
LIANE
10% chance
Suggested:
AINEE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.3% →
SALON 5.76 bits
13.8% →
LIANE 5.29 bits
9.7% →
AINEE 4.45 bits
8.9% →
SAINT 5.39 bits
7.9% →
CAROL 5.12 bits
4.9% →
LEAST 4.80 bits
2.3% →
FIRST 4.49 bits
2.2% →
COALY 4.76 bits
2.2% →
CAULK 4.35 bits
2.2% →
SLANE 4.48 bits

Research on TWERK

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

Optimal play

Opening with TWERK, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #9,246 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.88 guesses at best and is rank #3,820 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.75, at or below the proven-optimal 3.77, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TWERK 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).