5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

WRACK

WRACK is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 89.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɹæk/

Noun

The remains of something; a wreck.

Noun

Any marine vegetation cast up on shore, especially seaweed of the family Fucaceae.

Verb

To wreck, especially a ship.

Verb

Alternative form of rack (“to cause to suffer pain, etc.”).

Alternative forms: wrake

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

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 WRACK performs as a guess

WRACK is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,359 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 74.8% of games, misses completely in 25.2%, and leaves about 246 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,251 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___K W in the 1st position and K in the 5th position W__C_ W in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _R__K R in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE SALET ROUET LAYER STILE SPITE
Words starting with W Words ending with K

First-turn measures

4.34 Entropy (bits)
246 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
89.6% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WRACK 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
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#8,251 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WRACK ranks #8,251 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
840
4 guesses
1,179
5 guesses
271
6 guesses
12

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
AR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
30%
All gray
25%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S W I N G
B A T C H
W R A C K

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches WRACK in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

91 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

594
301
261
132
112
108
90
58
53
40
37
36
36
34
31
25
24
24
23
22
21
16
13
12
12
11
11
10
9
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WRACK:

25% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
13% chance
Suggested:
SALET
11% chance
Suggested:
ROUET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.2% →
TOILE 6.14 bits
12.8% →
SALET 5.38 bits
11.1% →
ROUET 5.24 bits
5.6% →
LAYER 4.53 bits
4.7% →
STILE 5.34 bits
4.6% →
SPITE 4.73 bits
3.8% →
TOILE 5.27 bits
2.5% →
CONTE 4.58 bits
2.2% →
TUILE 4.42 bits
1.7% →
TONEY 4.39 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4R1A1C3K5
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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