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

CADET

Yes, CADET was the Wordle answer on July 22, 2024 (Wordle #1129).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kəˈdɛt/

Noun

A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.

Noun

A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would.

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: July 22, 2024 (#1129).

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

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How CADET performs as a guess

CADET 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 87.9% of games, misses completely in 12.1%, and leaves about 101 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,282 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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___T C in the 1st position and T in the 5th position C__E_ C in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__T A in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

SOILY SNORE SNARL SENOR GLARE SOUTH
Words starting with C Words ending with T

First-turn measures

5.36 Entropy (bits)
101 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 96% of evaluated openers
0.59 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CADET 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#1,282 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CADET ranks #1,282 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
80
3 guesses
942
4 guesses
1,162
5 guesses
159
6 guesses
9
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AET

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
41%
All gray
12%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S P L A T
C A D E T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CADET in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

117 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

285
207
156
125
111
100
83
81
71
67
63
53
46
42
36
36
33
32
31
30
30
30
29
29
27
26
25
22
21
21

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CADET:

12% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
9% chance
Suggested:
SNORE
7% chance
Suggested:
SNARL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.1% →
SOILY 5.71 bits
8.8% →
SNORE 5.35 bits
6.6% →
SNARL 5.16 bits
5.3% →
SENOR 4.43 bits
4.7% →
GLARE 4.62 bits
4.2% →
SOUTH 5.01 bits
3.5% →
SONLY 4.75 bits
3.4% →
NOISE 4.57 bits
3.0% →
WORLD 4.77 bits
2.8% →
TRITE 4.52 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3A1D2E1T1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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