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

CADIE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative spelling of caddie (“a gentleman who joined the military without a commission as a career; a young man; a person engaged to run errands such as carrying goods and messages; specifically, a member of an organized group of such persons working in large Scottish towns in the early 18th century”).

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 CADIE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CADIE 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 88.5% of games, misses completely in 11.5%, and leaves about 107 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #943 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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.
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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 C__I_ C in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _A__E A in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in CADIE.

First-turn measures

All four describe CADIE 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.

5.32 Entropy (bits)
107 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 95% of evaluated openers
0.63 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CADIE 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#943 Rank among openers
Opening with CADIE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.60 average. It ranks #943 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
72
3 guesses
1,000
4 guesses
1,097
5 guesses
170
6 guesses
14
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

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AEI

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
42%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

CADIE can come back 117 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

273 answers
220 answers
177 answers
170 answers
114 answers
107 answers
91 answers
73 answers
62 answers
61 answers
50 answers
49 answers
48 answers
39 answers
37 answers
36 answers
33 answers
33 answers
31 answers
29 answers
27 answers
26 answers
25 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
19 answers
18 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3A1D2I1E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

STORY SETER SLART SPILT SOREL SONLY

Strategy after playing CADIE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CADIE:

11% chance
Suggested:
STORY
9% chance
Suggested:
SETER
7% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.5% →
STORY 5.61 bits
9.3% →
SETER 5.56 bits
7.5% →
SLART 5.41 bits
7.2% →
SPILT 5.07 bits
4.8% →
SOREL 4.65 bits
4.5% →
SONLY 4.70 bits
3.8% →
SLART 4.86 bits
3.1% →
SLART 4.49 bits
2.6% →
RIPEN 4.46 bits
2.6% →
SLANT 3.81 bits

Research on CADIE

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

Optimal play

Opening with CADIE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #853 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 CADIE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.60, at or below the proven-optimal 3.63, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it KADEE. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CADIE 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).