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CACAO

Yes, CACAO was the Wordle answer on June 18, 2022 (Wordle #364).

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

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kəˈkaʊ//kəˈkɑː.əʊ//kəˈkeɪ.əʊ/

Noun

A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.

Noun

The seed of this tree, the cocoa bean.

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

Used once

Past Wordle answer: June 18, 2022 (#364).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How CACAO performs as a guess

CACAO 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 69.3% of games, misses completely in 30.7%, and leaves about 354 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,006 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.90 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.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

C___O C in the 1st position and O in the 5th position C__A_ C in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _A__O A in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

Try next

SLIER TRONE SLATE STILE TRINE SERAL
Words starting with C Words ending with O

First-turn measures

3.65 Entropy (bits)
354 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
85.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 10% of evaluated openers
2.30 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CACAO 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.

3.90 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#14,006 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CACAO ranks #14,006 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
32
3 guesses
632
4 guesses
1,248
5 guesses
407
6 guesses
30
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

3/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
69%
Green tile
29%
All gray
31%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S A L O N
C A C A O

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CACAO in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

58 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

724
400
285
190
87
84
60
55
41
40
37
34
32
26
26
21
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6
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CACAO:

31% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
17% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
12% chance
Suggested:
SLATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.7% →
SLIER 6.07 bits
17.0% →
TRONE 5.28 bits
12.1% →
SLATE 5.50 bits
8.1% →
STILE 4.80 bits
3.7% →
TRINE 4.93 bits
3.6% →
SERAL 4.53 bits
2.5% →
DROLE 4.22 bits
2.3% →
TRINE 4.56 bits
1.7% →
LEAST 4.15 bits
1.7% →
NOTCH 3.87 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3A1C3A1O1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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