5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

CACKY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 82.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Characterized by or pertaining to excrement.

Adjective

Worthless or no-good; rubbishy.

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 CACKY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CACKY 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 64.0% of games, misses completely in 36.0%, and leaves about 417 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,838 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.89 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__K_ C in the 1st position and K in the 4th position _A__Y A in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

TOISE ALERT SOLDE SILER RIONE PROLE
Words starting with C Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.53 Entropy (bits)
417 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
82.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 8% of evaluated openers
2.42 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CACKY 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.

3.89 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#13,838 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CACKY ranks #13,838 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
30
3 guesses
620
4 guesses
1,310
5 guesses
367
6 guesses
26
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)
64%
Green tile
35%
All gray
36%

Feedback distribution

60 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

850
401
201
164
99
79
65
49
41
41
38
31
29
23
21
20
18
17
13
13
10
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9
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8
8
8
8
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7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CACKY:

36% chance
Suggested:
TOISE
17% chance
Suggested:
ALERT
9% chance
Suggested:
SOLDE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

36.0% →
TOISE 6.08 bits
17.0% →
ALERT 5.60 bits
8.5% →
SOLDE 4.61 bits
7.0% →
SILER 4.86 bits
4.2% →
RIONE 5.04 bits
3.4% →
PROLE 5.00 bits
2.8% →
SLART 3.50 bits
2.1% →
STILE 4.71 bits
1.7% →
SOLER 4.30 bits
1.7% →
SHIRE 4.24 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3A1C3K5Y4
Total: 16 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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