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

CADGY

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

cheerful or mirthful, as after good eating or drinking

Adjective

frolicsome; wanton

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use CADGY in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 89.6% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How CADGY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CADGY 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 74.0% of games, misses completely in 26.0%, and leaves about 248 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,271 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 CADGY 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.

4.31 Entropy (bits)
248 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CADGY 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
100% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#7,271 Rank among openers
Opening with CADGY solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.71 average. It ranks #7,271 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
827
4 guesses
1,262
5 guesses
204
6 guesses
14

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
A

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
36%
All gray
26%

Feedback distribution

CADGY can come back 85 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

619 answers
308 answers
161 answers
133 answers
128 answers
119 answers
97 answers
88 answers
62 answers
60 answers
52 answers
48 answers
43 answers
34 answers
32 answers
32 answers
25 answers
23 answers
22 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3A1D2G2Y4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Strategy after playing CADGY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CADGY:

26% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
13% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
7% chance
Suggested:
SILER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.0% →
TORSE 6.26 bits
12.9% →
SLATE 5.68 bits
6.8% →
SILER 4.61 bits
5.6% →
TORSE 4.90 bits
5.4% →
TOISE 5.15 bits
5.0% →
TRINE 5.36 bits
4.1% →
TRONE 5.28 bits
3.7% →
NOIRE 4.99 bits
2.6% →
IRATE 4.67 bits
2.5% →
LEAST 4.59 bits

Research on CADGY

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

Optimal play

Opening with CADGY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,176 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 CADGY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).