5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet F tier opener

CABBY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 84.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of cabbie (“taxi driver”).

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 CABBY performs as a guess

CABBY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 66.5% of games, misses completely in 33.5%, and leaves about 375 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,446 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.87 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.

C___Y C in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position C__B_ C in the 1st position and B in the 4th position _A__Y A in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

TOISE ALERT SIDLE SILER NOIRE TOILE
Words starting with C Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.60 Entropy (bits)
375 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
84.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 9% of evaluated openers
2.35 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CABBY 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.

3.87 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#13,446 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CABBY ranks #13,446 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
37
3 guesses
643
4 guesses
1,289
5 guesses
358
6 guesses
23
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
A

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
66%
Green tile
34%
All gray
34%

Example solver route

R O A T E
N A S A L
D U C H Y
C A B B Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CABBY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

62 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

790
386
196
148
130
99
85
61
57
51
43
43
28
23
21
21
19
16
13
11
11
8
8
8
7
6
6
5
4
4

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CABBY:

34% chance
Suggested:
TOISE
16% chance
Suggested:
ALERT
8% chance
Suggested:
SIDLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

33.5% →
TOISE 6.10 bits
16.4% →
ALERT 5.59 bits
8.3% →
SIDLE 4.58 bits
6.3% →
SILER 4.78 bits
5.5% →
TOISE 5.22 bits
4.2% →
NOIRE 5.09 bits
3.6% →
TOILE 5.14 bits
2.6% →
SLART 3.54 bits
2.4% →
LEAST 4.65 bits
2.2% →
SHARE 4.12 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3A1B3B3Y4
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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