5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

WALKS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /wɔːks//waːks//wɔks/

Noun

plural of walk

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of walk

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 WALKS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WALKS 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 73.5% of games, misses completely in 26.5%, and leaves about 255 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,753 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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__K_ W in the 1st position and K in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TRONE ROUET TRODE GOIER RONTE ROATE
Words starting with W Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.21 Entropy (bits)
255 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.2% 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 opener: v5 benchmark

How WALKS 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#8,753 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WALKS ranks #8,753 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
808
4 guesses
1,248
5 guesses
244
6 guesses
12
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ALS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
23%
All gray
26%

Feedback distribution

75 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

625
236
228
181
164
132
93
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37
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WALKS:

27% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
10% chance
Suggested:
ROUET
10% chance
Suggested:
TRODE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.5% →
TRONE 6.07 bits
10.0% →
ROUET 5.66 bits
9.7% →
TRODE 5.60 bits
7.7% →
GOIER 5.14 bits
7.0% →
RONTE 4.88 bits
5.6% →
ROATE 4.53 bits
3.9% →
PEART 4.93 bits
2.2% →
TOILE 4.37 bits
2.0% →
SLEPT 4.54 bits
1.9% →
TRINE 3.71 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4A1L1K5S1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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