5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

WAKFS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 84.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of wakf

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of wakf

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 WAKFS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WAKFS 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 68.2% of games, misses completely in 31.8%, and leaves about 356 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,532 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 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.

Useful pattern pages

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

W___S W in the 1st position and S in the 5th position W__F_ W in the 1st position and F in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE ALERT ROUET RONTE STALE CRINE
Words starting with W Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.64 Entropy (bits)
356 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
84.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 10% of evaluated openers
2.31 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WAKFS 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#12,532 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WAKFS ranks #12,532 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
684
4 guesses
1,296
5 guesses
329
6 guesses
9
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
AS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
20%
All gray
32%

Feedback distribution

60 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

751
344
274
206
119
92
60
56
48
45
43
33
25
25
24
21
15
15
14
12
11
10
9
8
8
8
7
6
6
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WAKFS:

32% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
15% chance
Suggested:
ALERT
12% chance
Suggested:
ROUET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.8% →
TOILE 5.99 bits
14.6% →
ALERT 5.57 bits
11.6% →
ROUET 5.58 bits
8.7% →
RONTE 4.80 bits
5.0% →
STALE 4.88 bits
3.9% →
TOILE 5.18 bits
2.5% →
CRINE 4.98 bits
2.4% →
STILE 4.02 bits
2.0% →
TRIDE 4.70 bits
1.9% →
RONTE 4.48 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4A1K5F4S1
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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