5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet B tier opener

CAIRN

CAIRN is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 95.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kɛən//kɛ(ə)ɹn//keːn/

Noun

A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument.

Noun

A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, to guide travelers on land or at sea, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc.

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

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 CAIRN performs as a guess

CAIRN 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 86.6% of games, misses completely in 13.4%, and leaves about 109 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #340 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 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___N C in the 1st position and N in the 5th position C__R_ C in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _A__N A in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

STOLE TOUSE SLATE SOLDE BEAST PORTE
Words starting with C Words ending with N

First-turn measures

5.36 Entropy (bits)
109 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.4% 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 CAIRN 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.

3.58 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#340 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CAIRN ranks #340 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
75
3 guesses
1,046
4 guesses
1,043
5 guesses
172
6 guesses
15
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AINR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
38%
All gray
13%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C A R R Y
C A I R N

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CAIRN in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

127 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

315
210
194
118
100
92
86
69
58
52
51
47
47
47
41
39
38
36
33
32
31
31
30
25
23
22
21
21
16
16

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CAIRN:

13% chance
Suggested:
STOLE
9% chance
Suggested:
TOUSE
8% chance
Suggested:
SLATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.4% →
STOLE 6.03 bits
8.9% →
TOUSE 5.44 bits
8.2% →
SLATE 5.76 bits
5.0% →
SOLDE 4.86 bits
4.2% →
STOLE 4.58 bits
3.9% →
TOUSE 5.02 bits
3.6% →
BEAST 4.51 bits
2.9% →
STOLE 5.10 bits
2.5% →
PORTE 3.82 bits
2.2% →
RIVET 4.22 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3A1I1R1N1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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