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

WANKY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Like a wanker; foolish or objectionable.

Adjective

Pretentious.

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.

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Useful pattern pages

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

W___Y W in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position W__K_ W in the 1st position and K in the 4th position _A__Y A in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

First-turn measures

All four describe WANKY 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.

3.97 Entropy (bits)
317 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 21% of evaluated openers
1.98 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How WANKY 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#11,348 Rank among openers
Opening with WANKY solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.79 average. It ranks #11,348 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
712
4 guesses
1,305
5 guesses
282
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:
AN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
33%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

WANKY can come back 75 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

712 answers
371 answers
175 answers
163 answers
147 answers
78 answers
65 answers
56 answers
56 answers
43 answers
39 answers
36 answers
33 answers
29 answers
28 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
20 answers
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18 answers
14 answers
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12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
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9 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4A1N1K5Y4
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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

Try next

ROUET ALERT TOISE SOLDE CLOTE GRISE

Strategy after playing WANKY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WANKY:

30% chance
Suggested:
ROUET
16% chance
Suggested:
ALERT
7% chance
Suggested:
TOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.0% →
ROUET 6.13 bits
15.6% →
ALERT 5.58 bits
7.4% →
TOISE 5.51 bits
6.9% →
SOLDE 4.59 bits
6.2% →
CLOTE 4.71 bits
3.3% →
GRISE 4.77 bits
2.7% →
TRICE 4.41 bits
2.4% →
CRISE 4.64 bits
2.4% →
SLART 3.51 bits
1.8% →
SOREL 4.69 bits