5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

WINKS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of wink

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of wink

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 WINKS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WINKS 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 67.0% of games, misses completely in 33.0%, and leaves about 341 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,145 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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 _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ROATE STARE CRATE LATER GRATE CAGEY
Words starting with W Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.92 Entropy (bits)
341 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 19% of evaluated openers
2.03 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WINKS 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
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#9,145 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WINKS ranks #9,145 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
809
4 guesses
1,230
5 guesses
256
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:
INS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
67%
Green tile
20%
All gray
33%

Feedback distribution

72 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

778
305
201
150
114
89
74
58
50
44
42
32
30
27
26
24
24
23
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18
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9
9
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WINKS:

33% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
13% chance
Suggested:
STARE
9% chance
Suggested:
CRATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

33.0% →
ROATE 6.15 bits
12.9% →
STARE 5.75 bits
8.5% →
CRATE 5.47 bits
6.4% →
ROATE 5.35 bits
4.8% →
LATER 4.79 bits
3.8% →
GRATE 4.71 bits
3.1% →
CAGEY 4.65 bits
2.5% →
PALET 4.71 bits
2.1% →
ROATE 4.74 bits
1.9% →
CARLE 4.63 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4I1N1K5S1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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