5-Letter Word

SLANK

A 5 letter word: slank

S1
L2
A3
N4
K5
Letter positions
Word
slank
Position 1
s
Position 2
l
Position 3
a
Position 4
n
Position 5
k
Structure
Vowel count
1
Consonant count
4
Unique letters
5
Repeated letters
No
Vowel positions
3
Game use
Wordle friendly
No
Scrabble score
9

Pattern Frequency

FilterWords% of 12,478
Words with 1 vowel (same as this word)3,73629.9%
Vowels at position 31,37511.0%
Words with no repeated letters8,01364.2%

Letter-Position Frequency

LetterPositionWords% of dataset
S11,52112.2%
L26775.4%
A31,2069.7%
N47586.1%
K52442.0%

Wordle Utility — Tier 3 — Weak opener

No repeated letters
Yes
Vowel count ≥ 2
No 1 vowel
No low-frequency tiles (Q, X, Z, J)
Yes

Tier 3 — Weak opener pool: 2,502 of 12,478 words (20.1%)

Scrabble Value

LetterPositionTile valueShare of score
S1111%
L2111%
A3111%
N4111%
K5556%
Total9Higher than 62% of 5-letter words (dataset median: 9)

Frequently Asked Questions

Is SLANK a good Wordle opening word?
SLANK has no repeated letters but only 1 vowel, below the ≥2-vowel threshold for opener classification. It falls in the Tier 3 pool of 2,502 words (20.1% of dataset). Better deployed as a second or third guess once vowel positions are partly confirmed.
What does SLANK mean?
SLANK: A 5 letter word: slank.
What is the Scrabble score for SLANK?
9 points. Tile breakdown: S(1) + L(1) + A(1) + N(1) + K(5). The highest-value tile is K (5 points), contributing 56% of the total. This score is higher than 62% of the 12,478-word dataset (dataset median: 9 points).
What percentage of 5-letter words have 1 vowel?
3,736 of the 12,478 words in this dataset have exactly 1 vowel (29.9%). Full vowel-count distribution: 0 vowels: 51 (0.4%), 1 vowel: 3,736 (29.9%), 2 vowels: 7,415 (59.4%), 3 vowels: 1,249 (10.0%), 4 vowels: 27 (0.2%).

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