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

WANKS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of wank

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of wank

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.

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.
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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

First-turn measures

All four describe WANKS 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.

4.15 Entropy (bits)
268 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 30% of evaluated openers
1.80 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How WANKS 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#8,791 Rank among openers
Opening with WANKS left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.74 average. It ranks #8,791 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
814
4 guesses
1,243
5 guesses
244
6 guesses
13
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:
ANS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
24%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

WANKS can come back 72 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

640 answers
294 answers
231 answers
163 answers
155 answers
111 answers
70 answers
68 answers
53 answers
47 answers
36 answers
32 answers
31 answers
31 answers
29 answers
26 answers
25 answers
21 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4A1N1K5S1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Try next

TOILE ALERT ROUET TRICE GOIER STALE

Strategy after playing WANKS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WANKS:

27% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
12% chance
Suggested:
ALERT
10% chance
Suggested:
ROUET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.0% →
TOILE 6.02 bits
12.4% →
ALERT 5.59 bits
9.7% →
ROUET 5.57 bits
6.9% →
TRICE 4.68 bits
6.5% →
GOIER 5.38 bits
4.7% →
STALE 4.87 bits
2.9% →
COURE 4.49 bits
2.9% →
GRICE 4.81 bits
2.2% →
ROUET 4.74 bits
2.0% →
SLUSE 4.02 bits