5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess F tier opener

WHISK

Yes, WHISK was the Wordle answer on September 12, 2023 (Wordle #815).

As an opener, it rules out about 84.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈwɪsk//ˈʍɪsk/[ˈw̥ɪsk]

Noun

A quick, light sweeping motion.

“With a quick whisk, she swept the cat from the pantry with her broom.”

Noun

A kitchen utensil, now usually made from stiff wire loops fixed to a handle (and formerly of twigs), used for whipping (or a mechanical device with the same function).

“He used a whisk to whip up a light and airy souffle.”

Verb

To move something with quick light sweeping motions.

“Vernon whisked the sawdust from his workbench.”

Verb

In cooking, to whip e.g. eggs or cream.

“The chef prepared to whisk the egg whites for the angel's food cake.”

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: September 12, 2023 (#815).

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

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How WHISK performs as a guess

WHISK is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 64.8% of games, misses completely in 35.2%, and leaves about 370 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,738 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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___K W in the 1st position and K in the 5th position W__S_ W in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _H__K H in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position

Try next

TALER LINER PARTE CARTE GRATE ROATE
Words starting with W Words ending with K

First-turn measures

3.86 Entropy (bits)
370 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
84.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 17% of evaluated openers
2.09 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WHISK 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#9,738 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WHISK ranks #9,738 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
45
3 guesses
777
4 guesses
1,251
5 guesses
264
6 guesses
16
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:
IS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
65%
Green tile
27%
All gray
35%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
U S I N G
W H I S K

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches WHISK in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

80 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

830
265
219
139
135
96
59
51
47
43
34
33
33
32
28
25
25
21
15
13
13
12
12
10
9
8
8
7
7
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WHISK:

35% chance
Suggested:
TALER
11% chance
Suggested:
LINER
9% chance
Suggested:
PARTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

35.2% →
TALER 6.09 bits
11.2% →
LINER 5.18 bits
9.3% →
PARTE 5.61 bits
5.9% →
CARTE 5.41 bits
5.7% →
GRATE 4.95 bits
4.1% →
ROATE 4.96 bits
2.5% →
DRONE 4.76 bits
2.2% →
STOAE 4.43 bits
2.0% →
CARLE 4.84 bits
1.8% →
CRANE 4.58 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4H4I1S1K5
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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