5-Letter Word

SWACK

A 5 letter word: swack

S1
W2
A3
C4
K5
Letter positions
Word
swack
Position 1
s
Position 2
w
Position 3
a
Position 4
c
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
14

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%
W21581.3%
A31,2069.7%
C43893.1%
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
S117%
W2429%
A317%
C4321%
K5536%
Total14Higher than 94% of 5-letter words (dataset median: 9)

Frequently Asked Questions

Is SWACK a good Wordle opening word?
SWACK 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 SWACK mean?
SWACK: A 5 letter word: swack.
What is the Scrabble score for SWACK?
14 points. Tile breakdown: S(1) + W(4) + A(1) + C(3) + K(5). The highest-value tile is K (5 points), contributing 36% of the total. This score is higher than 94% 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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