5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

CACHE

Yes, CACHE was the Wordle answer on February 17, 2023 (Wordle #608).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kæʃ//keɪʃ//kæɪʃ/

Noun

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

To place in a cache.

Verb

To store data in a cache.

Noun

Misspelling of cachet.

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: February 17, 2023 (#608).

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

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How CACHE performs as a guess

CACHE 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 80.7% of games, misses completely in 19.3%, and leaves about 203 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,806 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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___E C in the 1st position and E in the 5th position _A__E A in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SOILY DETER TRAIL GRISE SONLY METAL
Words starting with C Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.40 Entropy (bits)
203 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 45% of evaluated openers
1.55 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#11,806 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CACHE ranks #11,806 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
38
3 guesses
751
4 guesses
1,221
5 guesses
309
6 guesses
31
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
2 vowels
Common:
AE

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
38%
All gray
19%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S M I L Y
B O U G H
C A C H E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CACHE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

75 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

455
333
244
189
144
106
98
89
45
44
41
37
37
34
33
31
24
24
23
19
18
15
15
14
14
14
13
12
12
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CACHE:

19% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
14% chance
Suggested:
DETER
10% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.3% →
SOILY 5.66 bits
14.1% →
DETER 5.30 bits
10.3% →
TRAIL 5.38 bits
8.0% →
GRISE 4.41 bits
6.1% →
SONLY 4.65 bits
4.5% →
METAL 4.69 bits
4.2% →
SOUTH 5.13 bits
3.8% →
SLART 4.42 bits
1.9% →
SCION 4.22 bits
1.9% →
LATER 3.25 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3A1C3H4E1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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