CACHE
Yes, CACHE was the Wordle answer on February 17, 2023 (Wordle #608).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /kæʃ//keɪʃ//kæɪʃ/
- Noun
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A store, protected and often hidden in some way, of things that may be required in the future, such that they can be retrieved rapidly.
“Members of the 29-man Discovery team laid down caches to allow the polar team to travel light, hopping from cache to cache on their return journey.”
- Verb
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To place in a cache.
- Verb
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To store data in a cache.
- Noun
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Misspelling of cachet.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From French cache (as used by French Canadian trappers to mean “hiding place for stores”), from the verb cacher (“to hide”).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it KASH.
Rhymes with CRASH FLASH TRASH SMASH CLASH
Related meanings
In a sentence
Please clear your browser cache and try again.
They'll find your cigarette cache, and then you'll have problems.
Use CACHE in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 91.4% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: February 17, 2023 (#608).
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See what the public sample says →CACHE in Connections
3 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #1038
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CACHE appeared in THINGS STORED BY A BROWSER (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #728
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CACHE appeared in HOMOPHONES OF SLANG FOR MONEY (purple group).
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· Puzzle #389
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CACHE appeared in THINGS STORED BY A WEB BROWSER (green group).
How CACHE performs as a guess
CACHE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 80.7% of games, misses completely in 19.3%, and leaves about 206 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,806 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe CACHE used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How CACHE 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches CACHE in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
CACHE can come back 75 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for CACHE; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
Try next
Strategy after playing CACHE
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to CACHE.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing CACHE:
Research on CACHE
Game-tree analysis and word research for CACHE, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with CACHE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.82 guesses and ranks #11,386 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with CACHE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.80, at or below the proven-optimal 3.82, because the two figures score different answer lists.
These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- CACHE sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 4 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.2 of 5).
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).