5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

CABER

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkeɪbə//ˈkɑː-//ˈkeɪbɚ/

Noun

A long, thick log held upright at one end and tossed in the Highland games.

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 CABER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CABER 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 85.8% of games, misses completely in 14.2%, and leaves about 118 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,370 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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___R C in the 1st position and R in the 5th position C__E_ C in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__R A in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position CA_ER C in the 1st position, A in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and R in the 5th position

Try next

SOILY SEINE SLANT DROIT TOISE SONLY
Words starting with C Words ending with R

First-turn measures

5.22 Entropy (bits)
118 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 92% of evaluated openers
0.73 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CABER 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#2,370 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CABER ranks #2,370 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
73
3 guesses
953
4 guesses
1,119
5 guesses
194
6 guesses
13
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
2 vowels
Common:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
34%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

121 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

335
213
156
141
117
102
96
92
79
78
70
53
45
37
37
30
29
28
25
25
24
23
22
21
17
17
17
17
17
16

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CABER:

14% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
9% chance
Suggested:
SEINE
7% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.2% →
SOILY 5.69 bits
9.0% →
SEINE 5.42 bits
6.6% →
SLANT 5.37 bits
6.0% →
DROIT 5.03 bits
5.0% →
SLANT 5.01 bits
4.3% →
TOISE 4.63 bits
4.1% →
SONLY 4.53 bits
3.9% →
SOILY 3.51 bits
3.4% →
INLET 4.20 bits
3.3% →
SLANT 4.36 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3A1B3E1R1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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