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WREAK

Yes, WREAK was the Wordle answer on October 26, 2024 (Wordle #1225).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɹiːk//ɹik/

Verb

To cause harm; to afflict; to inflict; to harm or injure; to let out harm.

“The earthquake wreaked havoc in the city.”

Verb

Misspelling of reek.

Noun

Revenge; vengeance; furious passion; resentment.

Noun

Punishment; retribution; payback.

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: October 26, 2024 (#1225).

See the full page for that puzzle: October 26, 2024 (#1225).

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

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How WREAK performs as a guess

WREAK is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 83.1% of games, misses completely in 16.9%, and leaves about 174 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,345 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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__A_ W in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _R__K R in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in WREAK.

First-turn measures

All four describe WREAK 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.

4.64 Entropy (bits)
174 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 61% of evaluated openers
1.31 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How WREAK 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#9,345 Rank among openers
Opening with WREAK left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.75 average. It ranks #9,345 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
64
3 guesses
780
4 guesses
1,205
5 guesses
287
6 guesses
15
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
2 vowels
Common:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
28%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

R O A T E
G L E A M
W R A C K
W R E A K

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches WREAK in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

WREAK can come back 95 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

401 answers
278 answers
258 answers
178 answers
167 answers
112 answers
91 answers
68 answers
66 answers
64 answers
51 answers
50 answers
38 answers
37 answers
27 answers
23 answers
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17 answers
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15 answers
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14 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4R1E1A1K5
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

SOILY TOILE SAINT SEINE STALE COURT

Strategy after playing WREAK

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WREAK:

17% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
12% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
11% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.9% →
SOILY 5.66 bits
11.7% →
TOILE 5.42 bits
10.9% →
SAINT 5.29 bits
7.5% →
SEINE 4.47 bits
7.0% →
STALE 4.90 bits
4.7% →
COURT 5.03 bits
3.8% →
RATIO 4.23 bits
2.9% →
SALET 3.89 bits
2.8% →
DROIT 3.98 bits
2.7% →
SENTE 4.68 bits

Research on WREAK

Game-tree analysis and word research for WREAK, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with WREAK, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.76 guesses and ranks #8,777 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with WREAK can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.75, at or below the proven-optimal 3.76, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it REEK.

Rhymes with SPEAK GREEK CREEK FREAK SNEAK

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, WREAK is a kind of make.

Synonyms work play BRING act

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
WREAK sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (2.9 of 5).

In a sentence

A hurricane can wreak destruction everywhere it goes.
© tatoeba.org contributor AlanF_US (CC BY 2.0 FR)
That a single person can wreak so much havoc!
© tatoeba.org contributor sundown (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).