5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

ZACKS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /zæks/

Noun

plural of zack

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 ZACKS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ZACKS 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 68.1% of games, misses completely in 31.9%, and leaves about 355 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,827 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.84 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.

Z___S Z in the 1st position and S in the 5th position Z__K_ Z in the 1st position and K in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE ALERT ROUET TRINE CRINE STALE
Words starting with Z Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.62 Entropy (bits)
355 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 10% of evaluated openers
2.33 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ZACKS 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.

3.84 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#12,827 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ZACKS ranks #12,827 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
22
3 guesses
681
4 guesses
1,328
5 guesses
302
6 guesses
19
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:
AS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
19%
All gray
32%

Feedback distribution

48 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

752
318
289
174
166
115
58
55
43
34
29
26
24
21
21
21
18
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7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ZACKS:

32% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
13% chance
Suggested:
ALERT
12% chance
Suggested:
ROUET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.9% →
TOILE 6.03 bits
13.5% →
ALERT 5.62 bits
12.3% →
ROUET 5.54 bits
7.4% →
TRINE 4.75 bits
7.0% →
CRINE 5.32 bits
4.9% →
STALE 4.91 bits
2.5% →
TIARE 4.79 bits
2.3% →
STILE 4.06 bits
1.8% →
CONTE 3.93 bits
1.4% →
PROLE 4.40 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Z10A1C3K5S1
Total: 20 points

Words With Friends

Total: 21 points

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