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

CALLE

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

No dictionary definition for CALLE is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 93.4% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

Check CALLE on Wiktionary or report a missing entry.

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 CALLE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CALLE 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 82.6% of games, misses completely in 17.4%, and leaves about 156 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,259 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 CALLE 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.

4.91 Entropy (bits)
156 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 79% of evaluated openers
1.03 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CALLE 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#7,259 Rank among openers
Opening with CALLE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.71 average. It ranks #7,259 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
849
4 guesses
1,197
5 guesses
222
6 guesses
27
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
2 vowels
Common:
AEL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
42%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

CALLE can come back 101 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

414 answers
278 answers
173 answers
170 answers
120 answers
83 answers
78 answers
75 answers
74 answers
68 answers
65 answers
43 answers
33 answers
31 answers
29 answers
28 answers
28 answers
26 answers
26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3A1L1L1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing CALLE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CALLE:

17% chance
Suggested:
SNORT
12% chance
Suggested:
TENOR
7% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.4%
SNORT 5.96 bits
11.7%
TENOR 5.12 bits
7.3%
TRAIN 5.31 bits
7.2%
GRISE 4.50 bits
5.1%
SATYR 4.12 bits
3.5%
SPOIL 4.56 bits
3.3%
TREAD 4.72 bits
3.2%
TOUCH 4.77 bits
3.1%
FLAIR 4.21 bits
2.9%
STAIR 4.06 bits

Research on CALLE

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

Optimal play

Opening with CALLE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #6,559 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 CALLE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, 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

One syllable Say it KAYL.

Rhymes with SCALE EMAIL TRAIL WHALE SHALE

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CALLE sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).