Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier for first-turn info

CADEE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.1% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Obsolete form of qadi.

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 CADEE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CADEE 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 80.2% of games, misses completely in 19.8%, and leaves about 163 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,201 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe CADEE 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.

4.83 Entropy (bits)
163 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 73% of evaluated openers
1.12 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CADEE 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#7,201 Rank among openers
Opening with CADEE left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.71 average. It ranks #7,201 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
60
3 guesses
828
4 guesses
1,222
5 guesses
227
6 guesses
15
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AE

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
47%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

CADEE can come back 95 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

470 answers
233 answers
138 answers
130 answers
117 answers
115 answers
87 answers
87 answers
79 answers
75 answers
61 answers
57 answers
43 answers
39 answers
39 answers
38 answers
37 answers
37 answers
28 answers
23 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3A1D2E1E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing CADEE

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to CADEE.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CADEE:

20% chance
Suggested:
SNOUT
10% chance
Suggested:
SLART
6% chance
Suggested:
TOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.8%
SNOUT 5.79 bits
9.8%
SLART 5.45 bits
5.8%
TOISE 4.49 bits
5.5%
SONLY 4.69 bits
4.9%
SEITY 4.77 bits
4.8%
SONLY 4.26 bits
3.7%
ROUND 4.95 bits
3.7%
TOUCH 4.64 bits
3.3%
SLART 4.81 bits
3.2%
SLART 4.40 bits

Research on CADEE

Game-tree analysis and word research for CADEE, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with CADEE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,496 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 CADEE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71; proven optimal play reaches 3.70. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it KUHDEE. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CADEE sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).